ArticleiScience2019
Insect-Inspired Sequential Inspection Strategy Enables an Artificial Network of Four Neurons to Estimate Numerosity.
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- Numerical discrimination in Drosophila melanogaster.Cell reports · 2023Article
- Numerosity as a visual property: Evidence from two highly evolutionary distant species.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Does quantity matter to a stingless bee?Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Brain size predicts learning abilities in bees.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Non-numerical strategies used by bees to solve numerical cognition tasks.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Ants Can Anticipate the Following Quantity in an Arithmetic Sequence.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Numerosities and Other Magnitudes in the Brains: A Comparative View.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- 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
- Bumblebees Use Sequential Scanning of Countable Items in Visual Patterns to Solve Numerosity Tasks.Integrative and comparative biology · 2020Article
- Ants resort to heuristics when facing relational-learning tasks they cannot solve.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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- Bumblebees Learn a Relational Rule but Switch to a Win-Stay/Lose-Switch Heuristic After Extensive Training.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Honeybees foraging for numbers.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Varying levels of numerical cognition have been found in several animal species. Bees, in particular, have been argued to be able to count up to four items and solve complex numerical tasks. Here we present an exceedingly simple neural circuit that, when provided with the actual visual input that the bee is receiving while carrying out the task, can make reliable estimates on the number of items in the display. Thus we suggest that the elegance of numerical problem solving in bees might not lie in the formation of numerical concepts (such as "more," "less," or "zero"), but in the use of specific flight movements to scan targets, which streamlines the visual input and so renders the task of counting computationally inexpensive. Careful examination of the actual inspection strategies used by animals might reveal that animals often employ active scanning behaviors as shortcuts to simplify complex visual pattern discrimination tasks.
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