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SUMMARY:BMI Special Seminar // Barbara Webb - Understanding the bee-line: 
 the visual and neural mechanisms of insect navigation
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DESCRIPTION:Barbara Webb\, Edinburgh University\, Scotland\nBees are famou
 s for their ability to take a direct route\, either back to the hive after
  a circuitous search for food\, or between known food sources\, and can co
 mmunicate the location of food to nestmates through the waggle dance.\nAlt
 hough it has been known from many years of behavioural experiments that in
 sects use visual cues such as polarised sky-light and optic flow to suppor
 t such navigation behaviours\, we have only recently gained insight into t
 he underlying neural processing. We have used computational modelling to b
 ridge the gap from behaviour to neural mechanisms by relating the computat
 ional requirements of navigational tasks to the type of computation offere
 d by the small brains of insects. This has revealed a suprisingly elegant 
 circuit that effectively performs vector addition and subtraction to suppo
 rt a wide range of efficient spatial behaviours. The models are strongly c
 onstrained by neuroanatomy\, and are tested in realistic simulations and o
 n real robots.\n 
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