The entomology literature has historically suggested insects cannot feel pain, leading to
their exclusion from ethical debates and animal welfare legislation. However, there may be …

Continuously monitoring its position in space relative to a goal is one of the most essential
tasks for an animal that moves through its environment. Species as diverse as rats, bees …

How, why, and when consciousness evolved remain hotly debated topics. Addressing these
issues requires considering the distribution of consciousness across the animal …

Plasticity in animal behaviour relies on the ability to integrate external and internal cues from
the changing environment and hence modulate activity in synaptic circuits of the brain. This …

To what degree are non-human animals conscious? We propose that the most meaningful
way to approach this question is from the perspective of functional neurobiology. Here we …

State-of-the-art algorithms for visual place recognition, and related visual navigation
systems, can be broadly split into two categories: computer-science-oriented models …

Honey bee dance has been intensively studied as a communication system, and yet we still
know very little about the neurobiological mechanisms supporting how dances are produced …

Ants can navigate over long distances between their nest and food sites using visual cues
[1, 2]. Recent studies show that this capacity is undiminished when walking backward while …

Brain evolution is hypothesized to be driven by behavioral selection on neuroarchitecture.
We developed a novel metric of relative neuroanatomical investments involved in …

Many species from diverse and often distantly related animal groups (eg monkeys, crows,
fish and bees) have a sense of number. This means that they can assess the number of …