Many animals can navigate toward a goal they cannot see based on an internal
representation of that goal in the brain's spatial maps. These maps are organized around …

Oriented behaviour is present in almost all animals, indicating that it is an ancient feature
that has emerged from animal brains hundreds of millions of years ago. Although many …

Flexible behaviors over long timescales are thought to engage recurrent neural networks in
deep brain regions, which are experimentally challenging to study. In insects, recurrent …

When an animal moves through the world, its brain receives a stream of information about
the body's translational velocity from motor commands and sensory feedback signals. These …

Spatial maps in the brain are most accurate when they are linked to external sensory cues.
Here, we show that the compass in the Drosophila brain is linked to the direction of the wind …

Autonomous outdoor navigation requires reliable multisensory fusion strategies. Desert ants
travel widely every day, showing unrivaled navigation performance using only a few …

Insects rely on path integration (vector-based navigation) and landmark guidance to perform
sophisticated navigational feats, rivaling those seen in mammals. Bees in particular exhibit …

Locomotion involves rhythmic limb movement patterns that originate in circuits outside the
brain. Purposeful locomotion requires descending commands from the brain, but we do not …

Insect navigation arises from the coordinated action of concurrent guidance systems but the
neural mechanisms through which each functions, and are then coordinated, remains …

Flexible mapping between activity in sensory systems and movement parameters is a
hallmark of motor control. This flexibility depends on the continuous comparison of short …