Question

Which of the following is required for animals to perform path integration? Select one: O a. a compass sense o b. a map sense o c. an odometry sense o d. the ability to learn landmarks ole, the ability to memorize visual snapshots

Answer 1

• Navigation in animals was found to be associated with cues.
• These cues may be related to idiothetic cues or self movement cues, which are part of information from their vestibular organs.
• The cues may also be allothetic or distal cues, which are gathered from the environment.
• Path integration refers to navigation like finding way back to a starting position or location the current position.
• Path integration also is important when visual senses cannot be completely relied upon, like navigation in dark, under cloudy or stormy condition, etc.
• This is done by integration of internal cues or the idiothetic cues.

Answer: e