ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2015
The forest or the trees: preference for global over local image processing is reversed by prior experience in honeybees.
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- Different mechanisms underlie implicit visual statistical learning in honey bees and humans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- How the forest interacts with the trees: Multiscale shape integration explains global and local processing.Journal of vision · 2020Article
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- Signal or cue: the role of structural colors in flower pollination.Current zoology · 2019Article
- Honeybees prefer novel insect-pollinated flower shapes over bird-pollinated flower shapes.Current zoology · 2019Article
- Honeybees use absolute rather than relative numerosity in number discrimination.Biology letters · 2019Article
- Numerical cognition in honeybees enables addition and subtraction.Science advances · 2019Article
- Does Holistic Processing Require a Large Brain? Insights From Honeybees and Wasps in Fine Visual Recognition Tasks.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Perception of contextual size illusions by honeybees in restricted and unrestricted viewing conditions.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Visual acuity of the honey bee retina and the limits for feature detection.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Attention-like processes in insects.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Review
- Resources or landmarks: which factors drive homing success in Tetragonula carbonaria foraging in natural and disturbed landscapes?Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Traditional models of insect vision have assumed that insects are only capable of low-level analysis of local cues and are incapable of global, holistic perception. However, recent studies on honeybee (Apis mellifera) vision have refuted this view by showing that this insect also processes complex visual information by using spatial configurations or relational rules. In the light of these findings, we asked whether bees prioritize global configurations or local cues by setting these two levels of image analysis in competition. We trained individual free-flying honeybees to discriminate hierarchical visual stimuli within a Y-maze and tested bees with novel stimuli in which local and/or global cues were manipulated. We demonstrate that even when local information is accessible, bees prefer global information, thus relying mainly on the object's spatial configuration rather than on elemental, local information. This preference can be reversed if bees are pre-trained to discriminate isolated local cues. In this case, bees prefer the hierarchical stimuli with the local elements previously primed even if they build an incorrect global configuration. Pre-training with local cues induces a generic attentional bias towards any local elements as local information is prioritized in the test, even if the local cues used in the test are different from the pre-trained ones. Our results thus underline the plasticity of visual processing in insects and provide new insights for the comparative analysis of visual recognition in humans and animals.
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