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A neuron (green and white) in an insect brain (blue) Insect cognition describes the mental capacities and study of those capacities in insects. The field developed from comparative psychology where early studies focused more on animal behavior. [1] Researchers have examined insect cognition in bees, fruit flies, and wasps. [2] [3]
Martin Giurfa was born in Lima, Peru, from an Argentinean mother who raised him alone and registered him as an Argentinean citizen.He grew up in Lima where he attended the French School Lycée franco-péruvien and moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina at the end of 1980 to study Biology at the University of Buenos Aires.
Cognitive maps Some animals appear to construct a cognitive map of their surroundings, meaning that they acquire and use information that enables them to compute how far and in what direction to go to get from one location to another. Such a map-like representation is thought to be used, for example, when an animal goes directly from one food ...
Animal cognition is the title given to a modern approach to the mental capacities of non-human animals. It has developed out of comparative psychology , but has also been strongly influenced by the approach of ethology and behavioral ecology .
Sir Vincent Brian Wigglesworth CBE FRS [1] (17 April 1899 – 11 February 1994) was a British entomologist who made significant contributions to the field of insect physiology. [2] [3] He established the field in a textbook which was updated in a number of editions.
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Wikipedia is an example of this. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The massive structure of information available in a wiki , [ 20 ] or an open source software project such as the FreeBSD kernel [ 20 ] could be compared to a termite nest; one initial user leaves a seed of an idea (a mudball) which attracts other users who then build upon and modify this initial ...