"Displacement experiments provide evidence for path integration in #Drosophila", Titova et al. 2022 (Andrew Straw's lab) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.22.501185v1

In other words, desert ants (#Cataglyphis) and bees are famous for exploring a landscape and then returning in a straight line to the nest – but this ability may be present in all insects, if it is present even in the humble Drosophila.

What a clever set of experiments!

#neuroscience #entomology #PathIntegration

Aha! The famous Pfeiffer & Foster 2013 hidden-goal navigation task is apparently not hippocampo- dependent!! 🤯​
I am not completely surprised as this task might be solved by #PathIntegration… 🤔​

These findings call into question whether “prospective replay” of an imminent and direct path is actually necessary for its execution in certain navigational tasks

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.23497

Need to read ASAP!