Cornelia Buehlmann, A. Sofia D. Fernandes, and Paul GrahamAnt foragers make use of multiple navigational cues to navigate through the world and the combination of innate navigational strategies and the learning of environmental information is the secr…
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The interaction of path integration and terrestrial visual cues in navigating desert ants: what can we learn from path characteristics? [RESEARCH ARTICLE]
Posted by Buehlmann, C., D. Fernandes, A. S., Graham, P. on November 16th, 2017
Posted in Biology, Science General 
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No Comments »Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPhone 7: Covers iOS 10 and all models of iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, and iPhone SE
Posted by Guy Hart-Davis on November 22nd, 2016
A visual guide to the latest iPhone technologyTeach Yourself VISUALLY iPhone is the visual guide to mastering the powerful features and functionality of Apple’s latest smartphone. Whether you’re a newbie or upgrading to the latest model,…
Posted in Science General Tags: features, Iphone, latest, visual, Visual Guide, visually, visually iphone, yourself, yourself visually, yourself visually iphone No Comments »Trick flowers show how moth brains mix senses
Posted by James Urton-Washington on November 10th, 2016
Researchers have teased out how hawkmoths integrate signals from two sensory systems: vision and touch. […]
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Posted by News on November 7th, 2016
We are “conscious beast-machines.” (Aw, sit down. We owe this guy a hearing out of politeness. ) From neuroscientist Anil K. Seth at Aeon: In my work at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex in Brighton, I collaborate with cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, brain imagers, virtual reality wizards and mathematicians […]
Posted in Science General Tags: brain’s, conscious, Consciousness, Copyright, different, exciting, expectations, experience, Experiences, Hallucination, Hallucinations, Insights, Mechanisms, People, Perception, predictions, predictive, problem, reality, research, together, visual No Comments »Retinal specialization through spatially varying cell densities and opsin coexpression in cichlid fish [RESEARCH ARTICLE]
Posted by Dalton, B. E., de Busserolles, F., Marshall, N. J., Carleton, K. L. on November 3rd, 2016
Brian E. Dalton, Fanny de Busserolles, N. Justin Marshall, and Karen L. CarletonThe distinct behaviors and varied habitats where animals live place different requirements on their visual systems. A trade-off exists between resolution and sensitivity, …
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