Fishes navigate through underwater environments with remarkable spatial precision and memory. Freshwater and seawater species make use of several orientation strategies for adaptative behavior that is on par with terrestrial organisms, and research on cognitive mapping and landmark use in fish have shown that relational and associative spatial learning guide goal-directed navigation not only in terrestrial but also in aquatic habitats. In the past thirty years, researchers explored spatial cognition in fishes in relation to the use of environmental geometry, perhaps because of the scientific value to compare them with land-dwelling animals. Geometric navigation involves the encoding of macrostructural characteristics of space, which are based on the Euclidean concepts of “points”, “surfaces”, and “boundaries”. The current review aims to inspect the extant literature on navigation by geometry in fishes, emphasizing both the recruitment of visual/extra-visual strategies and the nature of the behavioral task on orientation performance.

The Geometric World of Fishes: A Synthesis on Spatial Reorientation in Teleosts / Baratti, Greta; Potrich, Davide; Lee, Sang Ah; Morandi-Raikova, Anastasia; Sovrano, Valeria Anna. - In: ANIMALS. - ISSN 2076-2615. - ELETTRONICO. - 12:7(2022), pp. 881.1-881.17. [10.3390/ani12070881]

The Geometric World of Fishes: A Synthesis on Spatial Reorientation in Teleosts

Baratti, Greta;Potrich, Davide;Lee, Sang Ah;Morandi-Raikova, Anastasia;Sovrano, Valeria Anna
2022-01-01

Abstract

Fishes navigate through underwater environments with remarkable spatial precision and memory. Freshwater and seawater species make use of several orientation strategies for adaptative behavior that is on par with terrestrial organisms, and research on cognitive mapping and landmark use in fish have shown that relational and associative spatial learning guide goal-directed navigation not only in terrestrial but also in aquatic habitats. In the past thirty years, researchers explored spatial cognition in fishes in relation to the use of environmental geometry, perhaps because of the scientific value to compare them with land-dwelling animals. Geometric navigation involves the encoding of macrostructural characteristics of space, which are based on the Euclidean concepts of “points”, “surfaces”, and “boundaries”. The current review aims to inspect the extant literature on navigation by geometry in fishes, emphasizing both the recruitment of visual/extra-visual strategies and the nature of the behavioral task on orientation performance.
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Baratti, Greta; Potrich, Davide; Lee, Sang Ah; Morandi-Raikova, Anastasia; Sovrano, Valeria Anna
The Geometric World of Fishes: A Synthesis on Spatial Reorientation in Teleosts / Baratti, Greta; Potrich, Davide; Lee, Sang Ah; Morandi-Raikova, Anastasia; Sovrano, Valeria Anna. - In: ANIMALS. - ISSN 2076-2615. - ELETTRONICO. - 12:7(2022), pp. 881.1-881.17. [10.3390/ani12070881]
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