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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marco Bassetto, Thomas Reichl, Dmitry Kobylkov, Daniel R. Kattnig, Michael Winklhofer, P. J. Hore, Henrik Mouritsen
Summary: Migratory songbirds can use the magnetic field for direction, possibly through the quantum spin dynamics of radical pairs formed in cryptochrome proteins. However, a study on fruit flies found no evidence of magnetically sensitive behavior, challenging the hypothesis. This suggests that further research should focus on migratory songbirds to understand the mechanism of light-dependent magnetoreception.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ryan D. Hunt, Ryan C. Ashbaugh, Mark Reimers, Lalita Udpa, Gabriela Saldana De Jimenez, Michael Moore, Assaf A. Gilad, Galit Pelled
Summary: The transparent glass catfish has a magnetic perception and tends to swim away from magnetic fields over 20 mu T, while showing adaptability to changing magnetic field direction and location.
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Environmental Studies
Jassleen Parmar, Ford Burles, Cara MacInnis, Giuseppe Iaria
Summary: The ability to mentally represent the location of things, known as cognitive maps, is not limited to physical spaces but may also include social spaces. This study explored the relationship between social elements such as social competence, social capital, and social support, and performance on spatial orientation tasks. The findings suggest that individuals with higher social competence, social capital, and social support perceive themselves as better at spatial navigation, but their actual performance contradicts this self-perception.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Victor Bezchastnov, Tatiana Domratcheva
Summary: By studying the response of cryptochrome to a weak magnetic field, we have identified the quantum states of the radical pair that are responsible for precise detection of magnetic field direction. These states contribute significantly to the formation of the cryptochrome signaling state when the magnetic field is orthogonal to the hyperfine axis, allowing for detection of a particular field direction normal to the plane containing the hyperfine axes.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2023)
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Biology
Jesse Granger, Soenke Johnsen
Summary: Many animals use the geomagnetic field for accurate long-distance migrations, but individual responses to magnetic cues can vary greatly. Therefore, animals may need to rely on other sensory cues or integrate their magnetic sense over time. Additionally, collective navigation strategies appear to be effective for noisy navigators, and magnetoreceptive animals could benefit from using them. Population loss can result in a higher proportion of individuals failing to complete their migration.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Roddy M. Grieves, Michael E. Shinder, Laura K. Rosow, Megan S. Kenna, Jeffrey S. Taube
Summary: The brain has robust mechanisms to counter spatial disorientation, including neural cell activity, visual landmarks, and vestibular input. Rotation speed affects neural cell activity, and head-fixed rotations impact the perception of angular velocity.
Review
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Will T. T. Schneider, Richard A. A. Holland, Oliver Lindecke
Summary: Magnetoreception is a crucial aspect of animal navigation and has been studied through behavioral measures for decades. However, the behavioral evidence is often fragmented and contradictory due to the use of different methods across research groups. This hampers our understanding of how and why animals use the Earth's magnetic field. In this paper, the authors discuss various methods, from field observations to laboratory manipulations, for testing animal behavior and propose that a multidisciplinary approach is necessary to advance our knowledge of magnetoreception.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL-SPECIAL TOPICS
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Madeleine Fricke, Christina Morawietz, Anna Wunderlich, Thomas Muehlbauer, Carl-Philipp Jansen, Klaus Gramann, Bettina Wollesen
Summary: This scoping review investigated spatial navigation interventions in healthy older adults and analyzed their effectiveness. The review included ten studies and found significant improvements in spatial ability outcomes in six of the interventions. However, the study could not draw conclusions about the transferability of these improvements to everyday spatial navigation performance.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Psychology, Mathematical
Sophia Rekers, Carsten Finke
Summary: Spatial navigation abilities are frequently impaired in neurological disorders and decline with normal aging. The virtual environments navigation assessment (VIENNA) is a brief and standardized tool that evaluates spatial navigation without episodic memory demands, and has been shown to be feasible and valid.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Pablo Muela, Elisa Cintado, Patricia Tezanos, Benjamin Fernandez-Garcia, Cristina Tomas-Zapico, Eduardo Iglesias-Gutierrez, Angel Enrique Diaz Martinez, Ray G. Butler, Victor Cuadrado-Penafiel, Ricardo De la Vega, Vanesa Soto-Leon, Antonio Oliviero, Laura Lopez-Mascaraque, Jose Luis Trejo
Summary: Spatial navigation is a crucial aspect of human behavior that is still not completely understood. Researchers have developed hardware and protocols to evaluate freely moving humans' spatial navigation abilities in a real space circular arena, providing a flexible and adaptable way to access information about these abilities.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kwon-Seok Chae, Soo-Chan Kim, Hye-Jin Kwon, Yongkuk Kim
Summary: Humans have a magnetic sense that is mediated by a magnetic field resonance mechanism, allowing them to perceive the Earth's magnetic field. This sense is sensitive to the wavelength of light, particularly blue light, and can be disrupted or enhanced by specific radiofrequency magnetic fields.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Fabian Schuhmann, Leonie Ryvkin, James D. D. McLaren, Luca Gerhards, Ilia A. Solov'yov
Summary: Biological processes involve movements across different scales, and similarity measures are used to compare and analyze these movements. This study reviews commonly used similarity measures and provides computational tools for each of them in computational biology. The study illustrates the use of these measures in diagnosing differences in biological data related to magnetic field perception by migratory birds. The contrast in computational complexity and sensitivity to spatiotemporal scales among the similarity measures is discussed.
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Brian K. Taylor, Margaret K. Bernish, Susan A. Pizzuti, Catherine E. Kehl
Summary: Certain animal species use the Earth's magnetic field in conjunction with other sensory modalities to navigate long distances, with the magnetic signatures playing a crucial role in guiding migration.
BIOINSPIRATION & BIOMIMETICS
(2021)
Article
Biology
Oliver Lindecke, Richard A. Holland, Gunars Petersons, Christian C. Voigt
Summary: The research suggests that the cornea may be a possible site of magnetoreception in bats, and also reveals that the corneal-based sense is bilateral in nature but can function in a single eye if necessary.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jingjing Xu, Lauren E. Jarocha, Tilo Zollitsch, Marcin Konowalczyk, Kevin B. Henbest, Sabine Richert, Matthew J. Golesworthy, Jessica Schmidt, Victoire Dejean, Daniel J. C. Sowood, Marco Bassetto, Jiate Luo, Jessica R. Walton, Jessica Fleming, Yujing Wei, Tommy L. Pitcher, Gabriel Moise, Maike Herrmann, Hang Yin, Haijia Wu, Rabea Bartoelke, Stefanie J. Kaesehagen, Simon Horst, Glen Dautaj, Patrick D. F. Murton, Angela S. Gehrckens, Yogarany Chelliah, Joseph S. Takahashi, Karl-Wilhelm Koch, Stefan Weber, Ilia A. Solov'yov, Can Xie, Stuart R. Mackenzie, Christiane R. Timmel, Henrik Mouritsen, P. J. Hore
Summary: Night-migratory songbirds show remarkable navigation abilities using a light-dependent magnetic compass mechanism suggested to rely on quantum spin dynamics. Research reveals that the photochemistry of CRY4 from the night-migratory European robin is more sensitive to magnetic fields than from non-migratory bird species, with specific mutations showing the roles of flavin-tryptophan radical pairs.