Topic: homing accuracy

As animals execute essential behaviors like foraging, they must orient with respect to the space around them. That is, they must have some neural/behavioral mechanism for spatial navigation. One such navigation mechanism is path integration, whereby animals recall their starting point by continuously measuring distances and directions of their movements, summing these to form a single memory-stored home vector. While path integration is a primary navigation mechanism for many invertebrates, little is known about the temporal degradation of this vector memory. To investigate how long the home v