List of works - Ken Cheng

25 years of research on the use of geometry in spatial reorientation: a current theoretical perspective.

scientific article published on December 2013

A champion of organismal biology

scientific article published on 5 April 2015

A geometry of regulatory scaling

scientific article published in November 2008

A new direction for grid cells.

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

A purely geometric module in the rat's spatial representation.

scientific article published in July 1986

Accelerated behavioural development changes fine-scale search behaviour and spatial memory in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.).

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

Acquiring, retaining and integrating memories of the outbound distance in the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti

scientific article published on February 2007

Answer (in part) blowing in the wind: Comment on "Liberating Lévy walk research from the shackles of optimal foraging" by A. Reynolds

scientific article published on 04 June 2015

Ants might use different view-matching strategies on and off the route.

scientific article published in January 2012

Ants use the panoramic skyline as a visual cue during navigation.

scientific article published in November 2009

Ants' navigation in an unfamiliar environment is influenced by their experience of a familiar route

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

Averaging temporal duration and spatial position

scientific article published on 01 April 1996

Backtracking behaviour in lost ants: an additional strategy in their navigational toolkit.

scientific article published on 21 August 2013

Bayesian integration of spatial information

scientific article published on July 2007

Beginnings of a synthetic approach to desert ant navigation.

scientific article published on 12 October 2013

Categories and range effects in human spatial memory.

scientific article published on 21 December 2010

Colouration in crab spiders: substrate choice and prey attraction.

scientific article published in May 2005

Combining sky and earth: desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) show weighted integration of celestial and terrestrial cues.

scientific article published on 16 October 2014

Compass cues used by a nocturnal bull ant, Myrmecia midas

scientific article

Context cues eliminate retroactive interference effects in honeybees Apis mellifera.

scientific article published in March 2005

Detection of bilateral symmetry in complex biological images.

scientific article published in January 2000

Determinants of range effects in face recognition.

scientific article published in August 2006

Distinguishing between apparent and actual randomness: a preliminary examination with Australian ants.

scientific article published on 20 June 2018

Does the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti approximate a Lévy search by an intrinsic bi-modal walk?

scientific article

Editorial: a synthetic approach to comparative cognition

scientific article published on 19 January 2014

Effects of the juvenile hormone analogue methoprene on rate of behavioural development, foraging performance and navigation in honey bees (Apis mellifera).

scientific article

Experimental ethology of learning in desert ants: Becoming expert navigators

scientific article published on 05 December 2018

Generalisation: mechanistic and functional explanations.

scientific article published in March 2002

Geometry, features, and panoramic views: ants in rectangular arenas.

scientific article published in October 2011

Goldfish (Carassius auratus) matching geometric and featural cues: a reinterpretation of some of the data of Vargas, López, Salas, and Thinus-Blanc (2004).

scientific article

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) holding on to memories: response competition causes retroactive interference effects.

scientific article published on 23 December 2005

Information content of visual scenes influences systematic search of desert ants.

scientific article

Invertebrate learning and cognition: relating phenomena to neural substrate.

scientific article published on 13 August 2013

Is there a geometric module for spatial orientation? Squaring theory and evidence.

scientific article

Landmark learning, cue conflict, and outbound view sequence in navigating desert ants

scientific article published on 05 July 2018

Landmark use by Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana): influence of disorientation and cue rotation on distance and direction estimates.

scientific article published on 5 July 2009

Mental contrasting with implementation intentions increases study time for university students

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Modelling timing performance on the peak procedure.

scientific article published in September 1996

Multiple sources of celestial compass information in the Central Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti

scientific article published on 19 March 2014

Panorama similarity and navigational knowledge in the nocturnal bull ant, Myrmicia midas

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Path integration, views, search, and matched filters: the contributions of Rüdiger Wehner to the study of orientation and navigation.

scientific article published on 07 February 2015

Peak shift in honey bee olfactory learning

scientific article published on 21 April 2014

Polarized light use in the nocturnal bull ant, Myrmecia midas

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Running paths to nowhere: repetition of routes shows how navigating ants modulate online the weights accorded to cues

scientific article published on 25 January 2019

Self-control in honeybees.

scientific article published in June 2002

Shape parameters explain data from spatial transformations: comment on Pearce et al. (2004) and Tommasi & Polli (2004).

scientific article

Shepard's universal law supported by honeybees in spatial generalization.

scientific article published in September 2000

Skyline retention and retroactive interference in the navigating Australian desert ant, Melophorus bagoti.

scientific article published on 26 April 2017

Small-scale spatial cognition in pigeons.

scientific article

Some psychophysics of the pigeon's use of landmarks ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 April 1988

Spatial generalization in honeybees confirms Shepard's law.

scientific article published in March 1999

Steering intermediate courses: desert ants combine information from various navigational routines

scientific article published on 3 June 2016

Stimulus control in the use of landmarks by pigeons in a touch-screen task.

scientific article published on March 1995

The View from the Trees: Nocturnal Bull Ants, Myrmecia midas, Use the Surrounding Panorama While Descending from Trees.

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

The effects of sun compass error on spatial search by Clark's nutcrackers

scientific article

The information content of panoramic images I: The rotational errors and the similarity of views in rectangular experimental arenas.

scientific article published in January 2008

Timing behaviour of black-capped chickadees (Parus atricapillus)

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

Traveling in clutter: navigation in the Central Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti

scientific article

Vector-based and landmark-guided navigation in desert ants of the same species inhabiting landmark-free and landmark-rich environments.

scientific article

Views, landmarks, and routes: how do desert ants negotiate an obstacle course?

scientific article published on 23 October 2010

Visual discrimination, sequential learning and memory retrieval in the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti.

scientific article

Visual scanning behaviours and their role in the navigation of the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti

scientific article published on 30 March 2014

Way-finding and landmarks: the multiple-bearings hypothesis

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Whither geometry? Troubles of the geometric module.

scientific article published on 04 August 2008

Why human environments enhance animal capacities to use objects: Evidence from keas (Nestor notabilis) and apes (Gorilla gorilla, Pan paniscus, Pongo abelii, Pongo pygmaeus)

scientific article published on 19 July 2018

List of works by Ken Cheng

25 years of research on the use of geometry in spatial reorientation: a current theoretical perspective.

A champion of organismal biology

A geometry of regulatory scaling

A new direction for grid cells.

A purely geometric module in the rat's spatial representation.

Accelerated behavioural development changes fine-scale search behaviour and spatial memory in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.).

Acquiring, retaining and integrating memories of the outbound distance in the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti

Answer (in part) blowing in the wind: Comment on "Liberating Lévy walk research from the shackles of optimal foraging" by A. Reynolds

Ants might use different view-matching strategies on and off the route.

Ants use the panoramic skyline as a visual cue during navigation.

Ants' navigation in an unfamiliar environment is influenced by their experience of a familiar route

Averaging temporal duration and spatial position

Backtracking behaviour in lost ants: an additional strategy in their navigational toolkit.

Bayesian integration of spatial information

Beginnings of a synthetic approach to desert ant navigation.

Categories and range effects in human spatial memory.

Colouration in crab spiders: substrate choice and prey attraction.

Combining sky and earth: desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) show weighted integration of celestial and terrestrial cues.

Compass cues used by a nocturnal bull ant, Myrmecia midas

Context cues eliminate retroactive interference effects in honeybees Apis mellifera.

Detection of bilateral symmetry in complex biological images.

Determinants of range effects in face recognition.

Distinguishing between apparent and actual randomness: a preliminary examination with Australian ants.

Does the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti approximate a Lévy search by an intrinsic bi-modal walk?

Editorial: a synthetic approach to comparative cognition

Effects of the juvenile hormone analogue methoprene on rate of behavioural development, foraging performance and navigation in honey bees (Apis mellifera).

Experimental ethology of learning in desert ants: Becoming expert navigators

Generalisation: mechanistic and functional explanations.

Geometry, features, and panoramic views: ants in rectangular arenas.

Goldfish (Carassius auratus) matching geometric and featural cues: a reinterpretation of some of the data of Vargas, López, Salas, and Thinus-Blanc (2004).

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) holding on to memories: response competition causes retroactive interference effects.

Information content of visual scenes influences systematic search of desert ants.

Invertebrate learning and cognition: relating phenomena to neural substrate.

Is there a geometric module for spatial orientation? Squaring theory and evidence.

Landmark learning, cue conflict, and outbound view sequence in navigating desert ants

Landmark use by Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana): influence of disorientation and cue rotation on distance and direction estimates.

Mental contrasting with implementation intentions increases study time for university students

Modelling timing performance on the peak procedure.

Multiple sources of celestial compass information in the Central Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti

Panorama similarity and navigational knowledge in the nocturnal bull ant, Myrmicia midas

Path integration, views, search, and matched filters: the contributions of Rüdiger Wehner to the study of orientation and navigation.

Peak shift in honey bee olfactory learning

Polarized light use in the nocturnal bull ant, Myrmecia midas

Running paths to nowhere: repetition of routes shows how navigating ants modulate online the weights accorded to cues

Self-control in honeybees.

Shape parameters explain data from spatial transformations: comment on Pearce et al. (2004) and Tommasi & Polli (2004).

Shepard's universal law supported by honeybees in spatial generalization.

Skyline retention and retroactive interference in the navigating Australian desert ant, Melophorus bagoti.

Small-scale spatial cognition in pigeons.

Some psychophysics of the pigeon's use of landmarks ⬇️

Spatial generalization in honeybees confirms Shepard's law.

Steering intermediate courses: desert ants combine information from various navigational routines

Stimulus control in the use of landmarks by pigeons in a touch-screen task.

The View from the Trees: Nocturnal Bull Ants, Myrmecia midas, Use the Surrounding Panorama While Descending from Trees.

The effects of sun compass error on spatial search by Clark's nutcrackers

The information content of panoramic images I: The rotational errors and the similarity of views in rectangular experimental arenas.

Timing behaviour of black-capped chickadees (Parus atricapillus)

Traveling in clutter: navigation in the Central Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti

Vector-based and landmark-guided navigation in desert ants of the same species inhabiting landmark-free and landmark-rich environments.

Views, landmarks, and routes: how do desert ants negotiate an obstacle course?

Visual discrimination, sequential learning and memory retrieval in the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti.

Visual scanning behaviours and their role in the navigation of the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti

Way-finding and landmarks: the multiple-bearings hypothesis

Whither geometry? Troubles of the geometric module.

Why human environments enhance animal capacities to use objects: Evidence from keas (Nestor notabilis) and apes (Gorilla gorilla, Pan paniscus, Pongo abelii, Pongo pygmaeus)