Introduction
Definition of Navigation:
We define navigation as the ability to go from one source place to another target place (goal) travelling through the environment (e.g. open fields, mazes ...).
Adaptive Navigation (tectofugal vs. thalamofugal) refers to the fact that the past experience of the animal may provide navigation even without input sensory cues, or allows the animal to improve efficiency.
Cognitive Maps: Animals build and store maps of their world in order to predict WHEN and WHERE different environmental events take place (e.g. Paul et al, 1987).
Prepared by Alex Guazzelli and Fernando Corbacho (aguazzel/corbacho@pollux.usc.edu)