In some ways, the social wasps may "share" brainpower. Individually, their brains might not stack up to their solitary relatives, but the colony as a whole is "smart. O'Donnell says the next steps for his work will replicate the wasp research with termites and bees, which also offer a variety of social complexity.
Wasp brains contain structures superficially similar to higher cognition centers in vertebrates. Credit and Larger Version. Do social insects share brain power? Drexel University's Sean O'Donnell has spent much of his year biology career studying wasps. Investigators Sean O'Donnell. Related Awards Collaborative research: Comparative-developmental analysis of brain architecture in social wasps.
Contact Help Search search. This makes sense, says Jernigan. Insect AOTs seem to play a role in memory, processing colours and discriminating objects. Read more: Wasps are the first invertebrates seen to use a type of logic. The results showed that despite these respective insects having no evolutionary reason for processing human faces, their brains learn reliable recognition by creating holistic representations of the complex images.
They put features together to recognise a specific human face. This suggests that in humans, the advantage of our big brain may be the very large number of individuals we can remember. This new information helps us understand how very sophisticated face processing expertise may have been possible to evolve in humans and other primates.
The evidence that holistic processing is used by different animals for a variety of complex visual problems suggests this may be useful approach to explore for developing AI solutions for reliable recognition. This article was originally published on The Conversation.
Read the original article. Originally published by Cosmos as Bees and wasps can recognise faces. The Conversation is an independent, not-for-profit media outlet that uses content sourced from the academic and research community. Cosmos is published by The Royal Institution of Australia, a charity dedicated to connecting people with the world of science.
Financial contributions, however big or small, help us provide access to trusted science information at a time when the world needs it most. Please support us by making a donation or purchasing a subscription today. However, some of the specific, complex regions of their brain did not.
Polybia raui. Photo by Sean O'Donnell. Their findings on the shrinking complex regions of the brain held — except for one species.
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