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Multimodal navigation in insects: Use of olfactory, visual and idiothetic cues in ants (Ant navigation)
Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2017,
Being able to navigate efficiently through the environment is a requirement for most animal species, including humans. Solitary ant foragers, that don’t rely on social cues such as chemical trails, are specialized for individual navigation and little else, thus their movements are a window onto the spatial computations underpinning navigation. Allied to the practicality of studying ants in the lab ...
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Predictive coding in social perception: a social neuroscientific approach to study the dynamic social brain (SOCIAL_PREDICT)
Start date: Aug 1, 2013, End date: Sep 11, 2015,
It is well known that racial stereotypes can influence the way people evaluate and treat people from other racial groups. Recent findings suggest that social knowledge can also directly influence very basic perceptual processes. These findings are in line with computational models that see the brain as a ‘prediction machine’: based on knowledge about the world, the brain attempts to match incoming ...
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The role of adaptive evolution in the success of transposable elements (adapTEd)
Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,
All eukaryotic genomes contain transposable elements (TEs), sequences that duplicate themselves semi-autonomously. Although TEs can have beneficial effects, the vast majority of TE insertions are thought to be either neutral or deleterious. TEs can be harmful because they disrupt important sequences, such as regulatory elements and protein-coding sequences, attract epigenetic markers that can alte ...
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