title: Do insects use templates or parameters for landmark navigation?
abstract: As an explanation for the landmark navigation abilities of insects, the template hypothesis is currently clearly dominating the parameter hypothesis. In a series of computer simulations, this paper investigates the conspicuous behavior of desert ants in experimental setups with expanded landmark arrays. It is shown that a parameter-based model accounts much better for the data than different template models.
authors.affiliation: Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich, CH-8057, Switzerland. moeller@mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Möller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003198:Computer Simulation; D007313:Insecta / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009068:Movement; D010465:Perception; D013698:Templates, Genetic