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Spatial matching tasks for insect minds: relational similarity in bumblebees

Gema Martin-Ordas

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University of Stirling

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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

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Understanding what makes human unique is a fundamental research drive for comparative psychologists. Cognitive abilities such as theory of mind, cooperation or mental time travel have been considered uniquely human. Despite empirical evidence showing that animals other than humans are able (to some extent) of these cognitive achievements, findings are still heavily contested. In this context, being able to abstract relations of similarity has also been considered one of the hallmarks of human cognition. While previous research has shown that other animals (e.g., primates) can attend to relational similarity, less is known about what invertebrates can do. In this talk, I will present a series of spatial matching tasks that previously were used with children and great apes and that I adapted for use with wild-caught bumblebees. The findings from these studies suggest striking similarities between vertebrates and invertebrates in their abilities to attend to relational similarity.

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bumblebeescognitioncomparative psychologyinvertebratesrelational similarityspatial matching taskstheory of mindwild-caught

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Gema Martin-Ordas

Dr

University of Stirling

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