Challenges in Navigation Research: Mapping New Directions
暫譯: 導航研究中的挑戰：繪製新方向

Newcombe, Nora S., Cheng, Ken

Challenges in Navigation Research: Mapping New Directions
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2026-04-02
  • 售價: $2,650
  • 貴賓價: 9.8 折 $2,597
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 481
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 303220562X
  • ISBN-13: 9783032205629
  • 相關分類: 生物資訊 Bioinformatics

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商品描述

This open access book presents a multidisciplinary synthesis of research on animal navigation, integrating perspectives from behavior, neuroscience, and ecology to advance understanding of how animals orient and move within their environments.

Successful navigation is essential for survival. How animals move through complex landscapes, cross vast oceans, or traverse barren deserts has long intrigued scientists. For over a century, research has sought to uncover the mechanisms that enable such remarkable feats. The knowledge gained has far-reaching implications--from enhancing mobility and independence in aging populations to shaping the design of advanced navigational technologies.

In the past decade, rapid advances in computational methods have fueled a surge in behavioral and neural data, placing the study of navigation at the forefront of scientific progress. Yet, significant challenges persist. Fragmentation across disciplines and levels of analysis has hindered integration, and the sheer volume of findings makes synthesis difficult.

To confront these challenges, the Ernst Strüngmann Forum brought together experts from diverse fields to integrate research on biological navigation. This volume presents the outcomes of that multidisciplinary exchange, integrating perspectives across behavioral, cellular, circuit, and systems levels, and spanning species, environments, and individual differences. It delineates unifying principles and frameworks to guide future research on navigation across taxa, developmental stages, and descriptive levels, and outlines agendas to advance the field.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本開放存取的書籍呈現了有關動物導航的多學科研究綜合，整合了行為學、神經科學和生態學的觀點，以促進對動物如何在其環境中定位和移動的理解。成功的導航對生存至關重要。動物如何在複雜的地形中移動、跨越廣闊的海洋或穿越荒蕪的沙漠，長久以來一直吸引著科學家的興趣。超過一個世紀以來，研究一直在尋求揭示使這些非凡壯舉成為可能的機制。所獲得的知識具有深遠的影響——從增強老年人口的流動性和獨立性到塑造先進導航技術的設計。

在過去十年中，計算方法的快速進步促進了行為和神經數據的激增，使導航研究成為科學進步的前沿。然而，仍然存在重大挑戰。不同學科和分析層級之間的碎片化妨礙了整合，而龐大的研究結果使得綜合變得困難。

為了應對這些挑戰，Ernst Strüngmann Forum匯集了來自不同領域的專家，以整合有關生物導航的研究。本卷呈現了這一多學科交流的成果，整合了行為、細胞、電路和系統層級的觀點，涵蓋了物種、環境和個體差異。它勾勒出統一的原則和框架，以指導未來在不同類群、發展階段和描述層級上的導航研究，並概述了推進該領域的議程。

作者簡介

Nora S. Newcombe received a PhD from the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. She was a faculty member at Pennsylvania State University before moving to Temple University, where she is now Laura H. Carnell Professor. Her research in cognition and cognitive development centers on spatial cognition and episodic memory, along with translational work on STEM education. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Honors include the Rumelhart Prize from the Cognitive Science Society, the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Research in Child Development, the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science, and the Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists.

Ken Cheng received a PhD from the Department of Psychology and Social Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Sussex and at Western University of Canada (previously called the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario), before accepting a University Research Fellowship at the University of Toronto. In 1995, he joined Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, where he is currently Professor in the School of Natural Sciences. Cheng's research has focused on functional as well as mechanistic questions in animal navigation across diverse species. Over 40 years, study animals have featured rats, pigeons, black-capped chickadees, humans, honey bees, and a number of species of ants, including desert ants in Australia and Tunisia. A key topic has been how animals use visual information in their surroundings to navigate. Cheng has served a long stint as an editor of the journal Animal Cognition, receiving both an Author Service Award and an Editorial Contribution Award from Springer Nature in 2025. Cheng has published a reference book on animal cognition for a general audience, How Animals Think and Feel (ABC-CLIO, 2016) and two short books on academic writing. In 2023, Cheng was given the career Research Award by the Comparative Cognition Society "in Honor of Outstanding Contributions to the Study of Cognitive Processes in Animals."

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Nora S. Newcombe 於哈佛大學心理學系獲得博士學位。在前往天普大學之前，她曾是賓夕法尼亞州立大學的教職員，現在是天普大學的 Laura H. Carnell 教授。她在認知與認知發展方面的研究集中於空間認知和情節記憶，並進行與 STEM 教育相關的轉化研究。她是美國國家科學院、美國藝術與科學學院以及實驗心理學會的成員。她的榮譽包括來自認知科學學會的 Rumelhart 獎、來自兒童發展研究學會的傑出科學貢獻獎、來自心理科學協會的威廉·詹姆斯研究員獎，以及來自實驗心理學會的霍華德·克羅斯比·沃倫獎章。

Ken Cheng 於賓夕法尼亞大學心理學與社會關係系獲得博士學位。他在薩塞克斯大學和加拿大西部大學（之前稱為安大略省倫敦的西安大略大學）進行博士後研究，之後接受多倫多大學的研究獎學金。1995年，他加入澳大利亞悉尼的麥考瑞大學，現任自然科學學院教授。Cheng 的研究專注於動物導航中的功能性和機制性問題，涵蓋多種物種。在超過40年的研究中，研究動物包括老鼠、鴿子、黑帽山雀、人類、蜜蜂以及多種螞蟻，包括澳大利亞和突尼西亞的沙漠螞蟻。一個關鍵主題是動物如何利用周圍的視覺信息進行導航。Cheng 曾長期擔任期刊 Animal Cognition 的編輯，並於2025年獲得施普林格自然出版集團的作者服務獎和編輯貢獻獎。Cheng 為一般讀者出版了一本關於動物認知的參考書籍 How Animals Think and Feel（ABC-CLIO, 2016）以及兩本關於學術寫作的短書。2023年，Cheng 獲得比較認知學會的職業研究獎，以表彰他對動物認知過程研究的傑出貢獻。

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