Insect cognition may be explained by executive functions. A peer reviewed Perspective applies self control ✋, task switching 🔄, and working memory 🧠 to documented behaviors and outlines testable predictions.
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Frontiers
Frontiers | Interpreting insect behavior through the lens of executive functions
Despite miniature brains, insects exhibit flexible, adaptive, and goal-directed responses. Behaviors indicating rule abstraction and complex decision-making ...
Scientists report the first evidence that bumblebees 🐝 can process time ⏳ and encode temporal information from sequences of light flashes 💡, a capability that may help resolve the long-standing debate over whether insects possess the cognitive architecture needed to interpret complex perceptual patterns.
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The Royal Society
Duration discrimination in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris
Abstract. The ability to process temporal information is crucial for animal activities like foraging, mating and predator avoidance. While circadian rhythm
Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees | Scientists found bees could solve an insect version of the classic “box-and-banana” problem
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Ars Technica
Bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, study finds
Scientists in Finland found bees could solve an insect version of the classic "box-and-banana" problem.