Call for Papers: Special issue on navigation

[A David Redish]

Call for Papers

A Special Issue on Navigation

Guest Editor: K.J. Jeffery

Biologists and designers of artificial systems share an interest in
understanding how mobile agents can not only move around the world in an
adaptive manner, but also learn the locations of salient places so that
they can return there later. Those who study animal navigation have
provided a wealth of data with which to formulate hypotheses about how
animals navigate. Roboticists and computational modellers, in turn, have
elucidated some of the underlying principles of spatial representation
and navigation. Nevertheless, convincing models of animal navigation
remain elusive, as do useful artificial navigation systems. This issue
aims to bring to the fore some of the most important questions from both
domains.

Key research issues and topics in the area include:

-   The evolution of navigation
-   Navigation across different scales
-   How are places represented?
-   Representing and reaching a goal
-   The problem of multiple goals
-   Planning trajectories
-   Shortcutting and detours
-   Navigating in featureless environments
-   Interactions between multiple navigation systems
-   Is there a geometric module in animals?
-   Multisensory integration
-   Spatial learning

The main aims of this special issue are to approach the theoretical
questions pertaining to navigation from a biological perspective.
Contributions are encouraged both from biologists with an interest in
the theoretical implications of biological data, and from designers of
artificial navigational systems (including computer models and robots).
Papers may be straightforwardly computational or more theoretical, and
presentation of new experimental data is welcomed.


Submission Instructions

Manuscripts, either full papers or shorter research notes (up to 4000
words), following the Connection Science guidelines
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/ccosauth.asp) should be emailed
to the guest editor by October 14, 2004. Reviews will be completed by
December 1, 2004, and final drafts will be accepted no later than
February 28, 2005.

Guest Editor

K.J. Jeffery
Department of Psychology
University College London
26 Bedford Way
London WC1H OAP
UK
Tel/Fax: +44 (0) 207 679 5308
E-mail: k.jeffery at ucl.ac.uk
Web: http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/people/profiles/jeffery_kate.htm

Special Editorial board

Simon Benhamou, Behavioural Ecology Group, Centre d'Ecologie
Fonctionelle et Evolutive, CNRS, Montpelier, France
Michael Hasselmo, Department of Psychology, Center for Memory and Brain
and Program in Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, USA
David Redish, Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, USA
Matthew Shapiro, Fishberg Research Center for Neurobiology, Kastor
Neurobiology of Aging Laboratories, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New
York, USA.