Baratti Greta, Potrich Davide, Lee Sang Ah, Morandi-Raikova Anastasia, Sovrano Valeria Anna
CIMeC, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, 38068 Rovereto, Italy.
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea.
Animals (Basel). 2022 Mar 30;12(7):881. doi: 10.3390/ani12070881.
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.
鱼类在水下环境中导航时具有非凡的空间精度和记忆力。淡水和海水物种利用多种定向策略来进行适应性行为，这种行为与陆地生物相当，并且对鱼类认知地图和地标使用的研究表明，关系性和联想性空间学习不仅在陆地栖息地，而且在水生栖息地中都指导着目标导向的导航。在过去三十年中，研究人员探索了鱼类与环境几何形状使用相关的空间认知，这可能是因为将它们与陆地动物进行比较具有科学价值。几何导航涉及对空间宏观结构特征的编码，这些特征基于“点”、“表面”和“边界”的欧几里得概念。本综述旨在审视有关鱼类几何导航的现有文献，强调视觉/非视觉策略的运用以及定向表现中行为任务的性质。
