Animal navigation: path integration, visual landmarks and cognitive maps

Curr Biol. 2004 Jun 22;14(12):R475-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.06.013.

Abstract

Animals typically have several navigational strategies available to them. Interactions between these strategies can reduce navigational errors and may lead to the emergence of new capacities.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cognition / physiology*
  • Cues*
  • Homing Behavior / physiology*
  • Models, Biological*
  • Orientation / physiology*
  • Spatial Behavior / physiology*
  • Visual Perception / physiology