The insect brain: we froze ants and beetles to learn how they remember their way home
By Ioannis Pisokas, PhD Candidate in Computational Neuroscience and BioRobotics, University of Edinburgh
Ajay Narendra, Senior Lecturer in School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
Ayse Yilmaz-Heusinger, Postdoctoral researcher in Functional Zoology, Lund University
Insects such as ants and beetles use ingenious processes in their brains to work out how far they’ve travelled and in what direction - we’ve now discovered how they remember their way home.
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