Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150101172

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150101172

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Navigating brains: the neurobiology of spatial cognition. Navigation is one of the most crucial and most challenging problems animals face. Behavioural analyses have shown that animals make use of a number of different mechanisms to navigate, but very little is known of how different forms of spatial information are processed and integrated by the brain. The project aims to tackle this by placing tethered ants in a virtual-reality simulation of their real environment allowing precise control of visual navigational cues, as well as the opportunity to study the brains of the tethered ants as they solve the real-world challenge of finding home. This may reveal how simple brains efficiently solve navigational tasks, which may inform both cognitive biology and bio-inspired computation.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2015

End Date: 29-06-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $913,900.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics | Zoology | Animal Behaviour | Animal Neurobiology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Other Keywords

Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics | Animal Behaviour | Animal Neurobiology | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Zoology

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