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Annual Review of Psychology

Volume 73, 2022

The Basis of Navigation Across Species

Abstract

Animals navigate a wide range of distances, from a few millimeters to globe-spanning journeys of thousands of kilometers. Despite this array of navigational challenges, similar principles underlie these behaviors across species. Here, we focus on the navigational strategies and supporting mechanisms in four well-known systems: the large-scale migratory behaviors of sea turtles and lepidopterans as well as navigation on a smaller scale by rats and solitarily foraging ants. In lepidopterans, rats, and ants we also discuss the current understanding of the neural architecture which supports navigation. The orientation and navigational behaviors of these animals are defined in terms of behavioral error-reduction strategies reliant on multiple goal-directed servomechanisms. We conclude by proposing to incorporate an additional component into this system: the observation that servomechanisms operate on oscillatory systems of cycling behavior. These oscillators and servomechanisms comprise the basis for directed orientation and navigational behaviors.

Keyword(s): Bogong moths, Monarch butterflies, orientation, oscillations, rodents, servomechanisms
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The Basis of Navigation Across Species
Annual Review of Psychology 73, 217 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-111311
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