navigation

Migrants often return to breed in the exact locality where they were hatched or born. This journey homeward, particularly that of birds, may cover thousands of miles.

…can be truly said to navigate—that is, to pinpoint their position in two coordinates, again perhaps with reference to the Sun or stars. In geese and swans, the young travel with their parents, so the possibility exists of their learning the chains of lakes, rivers, and other landmarks over which…

…other hand, studies of long-range navigation have shown that some animals can do just this.

There is evidence that female loggerheads imprint on the magnetic field signature of the beach as hatchlings and use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate back to the same beach as adults to lay eggs of their own. Once in the surf, the hatchlings swim outward into the open ocean, and…

…when a person attempts to navigate from one location to another. Most people, to a greater or lesser extent, have an intuitive sense of direction and distance that they employ for navigation. However, a person who suffers some form of brain trauma and impaired spatial sense will resort to another…

…the sensory basis for human navigation in space. Reliable perception of the vertical and horizontal dimensions and preservation of perceptual constancy for these dimensions during flight are based on the parallel activity of vision and balance. Even when flying small aircraft, a pilot becomes disoriented if visual control of the…

As animals navigate the world, they store information about their surroundings to form a coherent spatial representation of the environment in memory. The basic neural processes involved in spatial memory were elucidated by British American neuroscientist John O’Keefe and Norwegian neuroscientists May-Britt Moser and

The navigational capabilities of these ants have been the subject of numerous scientific investigations.