How Swarms Build Cognitive Maps
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Swarms of social insects construct trails and networks of regular tra c via a process of pheromone laying and following These patterns constitute what is known in brain science as a cognitive map The main di erence lies in the fact that the insects write their spatial memories in the environment while the mammalian cognitive map lies inside the brain This analogy can be more than a poetic image and can be further justi ed by a direct comparison with the neu ral processes associated with the construction of cognitive maps in the hippocampus We investigate via analysis and numerical simula tion the formation of trails and networks in a collection of insect like agents The agents interact in simple ways which are determined by experiments with real ants
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