<p>We review use of multiple landmarks in navigational behavior by humans and nonhuman animals focusing on three important aspects of spatial learning and cognition: Cognitive map, spatial integration, and configuration of multiple landmarks...
Katsuo Sekiguchi   Tomokazu Ushitani   Kosuke Sawa   
Journal of Comparative Psychology 132(2) 178-188 2018年5月 [査読有り]
Landmark-based goal-searching tasks that were similar to those for pigeons (Ushitani &
Jitsumori, 2011) were provided to human participants to investigate whether they could learn and use multiple sources of spatial information that redundantl...
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition 43(2) 127-138 2017年4月 [査読有り]
Three experiments that were carried out in series with 5 pigeons used novel training methods to investigate the rapid visual processing of picture stimuli by pigeons. On each trial, a sequence containing 1 of 2 bird pictures (the target) and nonta...
Tomokazu Ushitani   Clint J. Perry   Ken Cheng   Andrew B. Barron   
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 219(3) 412-418 2016年2月 [査読有り]
Normally, worker honey bees (Apis mellifera) begin foraging when more than 2 weeks old as adults, but if individual bees or the colony is stressed, bees often begin foraging precociously. Here, we examined whether bees that accelerated their behav...
Landmark cues are especially important in spatial cognition, because the processing of landmarks is seen at an early stage of cognitive map formation. Previous studies have indicated that animals are capable of conducting goal searches using multi...