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How animals navigate, for example, across complex terrain, featureless oceans, or deserts to find their way home after a foraging trip has long fascinated and puzzled observers. Successful navigation is essential to survival. Thus, understanding its mechanisms has long been a major goal for researchers in biology, neuroscience, psychology, and robotics. Easing the task of wayfinding has also been the focus for the practical inventors of human navigational tools, which have ranged from traditional systems using a complex mix of terrestrial and celestial cues to modern global positioning systems. A wealth of behavioral and neural data has been generated, which when combined with formal computational specificity offers an excellent opportunity to formulate pluralistic explanations might link brain and behavior as well as relate behavioral patterns to neural firing patterns... At the Forum (Frankfurt, Aug. 29-Sept. 3, 2010), a working group endeavored to conceptualize the EIC and identify..

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