Active vision of bees in a simple pattern discrimination task DOI Creative Commons
HaDi MaBouDi, Jasmin Richter, Marie Guiraud

et al.

eLife, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14

Published: April 10, 2025

Active vision, the sensory-motor process through which animals dynamically adjust visual input to sample and prioritise relevant information via photoreceptors, eyes, head, body movements, is well-documented across species. In small-brained like insects, where parallel processing may be limited, active vision for sequential acquisition of features might even more important. We investigated how bumblebees use distinguish between two patterns: a multiplication sign its 45°-rotated variant, plus sign. By allowing bees freely inspect patterns, we analysed their flight paths, inspection times, velocities regions focus high-speed videography. observed that tended only small region each pattern, with preference lower left-side sections, before accurately accepting target or rejecting distractor patterns. The specific pattern areas scanned differed signs, yet behaviour remained consistent regardless whether was rewarding punishing. Transfer tests showed could generalise recognition partial cues, maintaining scanning strategies selective attention learned regions. These findings highlight as crucial aspect bumblebees' processing, behaviours during enhance discrimination accuracy enable efficient environmental analysis encoding.

Language: Английский

Active vision of bees in a simple pattern discrimination task DOI Creative Commons
HaDi MaBouDi, Jasmin Richter, Marie Guiraud

et al.

eLife, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14

Published: April 10, 2025

Active vision, the sensory-motor process through which animals dynamically adjust visual input to sample and prioritise relevant information via photoreceptors, eyes, head, body movements, is well-documented across species. In small-brained like insects, where parallel processing may be limited, active vision for sequential acquisition of features might even more important. We investigated how bumblebees use distinguish between two patterns: a multiplication sign its 45°-rotated variant, plus sign. By allowing bees freely inspect patterns, we analysed their flight paths, inspection times, velocities regions focus high-speed videography. observed that tended only small region each pattern, with preference lower left-side sections, before accurately accepting target or rejecting distractor patterns. The specific pattern areas scanned differed signs, yet behaviour remained consistent regardless whether was rewarding punishing. Transfer tests showed could generalise recognition partial cues, maintaining scanning strategies selective attention learned regions. These findings highlight as crucial aspect bumblebees' processing, behaviours during enhance discrimination accuracy enable efficient environmental analysis encoding.

Language: Английский

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