Genetic intervention in the fly Drosophila melanogaster has provided strong evidence that
the mushroom bodies of the insect brain act as the seat of a memory trace for odours. This …

Research over the past century has revealed the impressive capacities of the honeybee,
Apis mellifera, in relation to visual perception, flight guidance, navigation, and learning and …

Making inferences about the computations performed by neuronal circuits from synapse-
level connectivity maps is an emerging opportunity in neuroscience. The mushroom body …

Abstract Changes in the abundance and diversity of neural cell types, and their connectivity,
shape brain composition and provide the substrate for behavioral evolution. Although …

Understanding memory formation, storage and retrieval requires knowledge of the
underlying neuronal circuits. In Drosophila, the mushroom body (MB) is the major site of …

The ability of insects to learn and navigate to specific locations in the environment has
fascinated naturalists for decades. The impressive navigational abilities of ants, bees, wasps …

The mushroom body (MB) of the insect brain has important roles in odor learning and
memory and in diverse other brain functions. To elucidate the anatomical basis underlying …

Visual navigation in ants has long been a focus of experimental study [1–3], but only recently
have explicit hypotheses about the underlying neural circuitry been proposed [4]. Indirect …

Ants, like many other animals, use visual memory to follow extended routes through complex
environments, but it is unknown how their small brains implement this capability. The …

In this paper we propose a model of visually guided route navigation in ants that captures
the known properties of real behaviour whilst retaining mechanistic simplicity and thus …