Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150102699

Funded Activity Summary

Acquiring and Using Views for Homing. The aim of the project is to investigate how insects acquire and use scene memories for homing, a crucially important task for most animals. In bees and wasps, these memories are acquired during learning flights when leaving the nest. This fast, active learning process underpins much of the insects' navigational competence, but it remains unknown how it is controlled and how in detail memories guide returns to the nest. It is intended to use the latest camera-based reconstruction tools for the first time: to quantify the navigational information content of habitats including the visual information available to learning and homing insects, and to dynamically modify the insects’ natural visual environment in order to critically test hypotheses about acquisition and use of views for homing.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 31-12-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $386,200.00

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 Information and Computing Sciences | 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 | Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences | Zoology

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