Solitary foraging insects display stunning navigational behaviours in visually complex
natural environments. Current literature assumes that these insects are mostly driven by …

Animals routinely learn to associate environmental stimuli and self-generated actions with
their outcomes such as rewards. One of the most popular theoretical models of such …

Solitary foraging ants rely on vision when travelling along routes and when pinpointing their
nest. We tethered foragers of Myrmecia croslandi on a trackball and recorded their intended …

Nocturnal insects have remarkable visual capacities in dim light. They can navigate using
both the surrounding panorama and celestial cues. Individual foraging ants are efficient …

A key concept in reinforcement learning (RL) is that of a state space. A state space is an
abstract representation of the world using which statistical relations in the world can be …