ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Neural representation of space: From individual to social place learning in bees
With ease, we daily navigate through our places of residence. From any familiar place, we can compute the shortest route to our workplace or to our favorite coffee shop. Additionally, we can flexibly adjust our route, if a road is suddenly blocked. This flexibility in route planning is based on a topological representation of different places in our brain (cognitive map). While place cells, a neuronal substrate of cognitive maps, have been identified in diverse species across the vertebrate lineage, a cognitive map is highly contentious in insects. Among insects, bees, especially, demonstrate remarkable navigational feats including taking novel shortcuts, which requires a highly…
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