Visual cues
- The potential of virtual reality for spatial navigation research across the adult lifespan
Summary: This Review describes how virtual reality is used to study spatial navigation across species and discusses the benefits and challenges when using it in older age groups.
- Innate turning preference of leaf-cutting ants in the absence of external orientation cues
Summary: In the absence of external orientation cues, leaf-cutting ants show an innate turning preference to the left. This bias can cause a looping pattern to enable ants to find their way back to a lost trail or nest site.
- Visual associative learning in wood ants
Summary: Ants form an associative memory of a visual cue paired with a reward through classical conditioning. This allows visual associative learning to be studied in fixed rather than free-moving ants.