Nature - The retrosplenial cortex and superior colliculus of mouse form a neural circuit that specifically encodes shelter location, facilitating rapid escape from predatory threats.

On a vertical comb in a dark nest, bees perform the waggle dance to signal a flight vector to food, informing the direction and distance from the hive. Hadjitofi and Webb show how a neural circuit in...

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pyControl is an open-source tool that makes it easy to specify complex behavioural tasks, run them at scale on low-cost hardware, and communicate task logic to other researchers.

Nature - Through modelling, neural recordings and behavioural experiments, a study shows that individual electric fish use electrical pulses of conspecifics to extend their electrolocation range,...

Is the mushroom body, a central brain structure in insects and crustaceans, involved in action selection? Arican et al. show that neuronal responses to food odors at the mushroom body output predict...

Fu et al. find that the orb-weaving spider Araneus ventricosus manipulates the bioluminescent signals of its male firefly prey Abscondita terminalis and thus lures more male fireflies into its web.

Nature Communications - Neural coding of goal direction remains unclear in insects. Here, the authors describe goal-direction neurons in the monarch butterfly brain that specifically encode the...

Ogawa et al. show that male hoverfly target-selective descending neurons have directional, dorso-frontal receptive fields. Neural responses to simple stimuli predict responses to target images from...

Choosing among spatially distributed options is a central challenge for animals, from deciding among alternative potential food sources or refuges ...

Nature - Through modelling, neural recordings and behavioural experiments, a study shows that individual electric fish use electrical pulses of conspecifics to extend their electrolocation range,...

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Nature - In the Drosophila central-pattern-generating neural network, a mechanism for network desynchronization relying on weak electrical synapses and specific excitability dynamics of the coupled...

Insects rely on path integration (vector-based navigation) and landmark guidance to perform sophisticated navigational feats, rivaling those seen i...

Hippocampal recordings in food-caching chickadees reveal sparse, transient representations of distinct episodic memories.

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Honey bees use social signal learning to improve their ability to waggle dance, a complex example of nonhuman spatial referential communication.

Nature Neuroscience - Knowing one’s own behavioral state is important to contextualize sensory cues and identify appropriate future actions. Here the authors show how neurons ascending from...

The generation and regulation of flight turns play a critical role in foraging ecology. Ros et al. functionally characterize the neural network that generates spontaneous turns in fruit flies. A...

The central complex is an insect brain area controlling goal-directed orientation. Comparative analysis of insect species ranging from firebrats to flies reveals two bilateral pairs of serotonin-im...

Nature - Bumblebees can learn how to open a two-step puzzle box by observing another trained bee, indicating that these insects can use social learning to acquire a behaviour too complex to...

Ants remember the direction and distance to their nest as they forage so that they can return to it. But, how do they store these memories? Scientists devise...

The ability to visualize small moving objects is vital for the survival of many animals, as these could represent predators or prey. For example, predatory insects, including dragonflies, robber...

Nature Neuroscience - In bat CA1, the authors found contextual time cells encoding spatial context and time, another population purely encoding elapsed time and social time cells encoding sequences...

As in mammals, honey bee motivation for wanting rewards is modulated by dopamine

Freire et al. show that Cataglyphis ants build taller nest hills in environments with fewer visual cues to use them as landmarks, allowing them to locate their nests more efficiently in environments...

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Radar networks hold great promise for monitoring population trends of migrating insects. However, it is important to elucidate the nature of responses to environmental cues. We use data from a...