Social cognition in insects.
culture
emotions
face recognition
personality
rescue behaviour
swarm intelligence
Journal
Trends in cognitive sciences
ISSN: 1879-307X
Titre abrégé: Trends Cogn Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9708669
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
07 2022
07 2022
Historique:
received:
09
10
2021
revised:
26
03
2022
accepted:
12
04
2022
pubmed:
16
5
2022
medline:
18
6
2022
entrez:
15
5
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Insects feature some of the most complex societies in the animal kingdom, but a historic perception persists that such complexity emerges from interactions between individuals whose behaviours are largely guided by innate routines. Challenging this perception, recent work shows that insects feature many aspects of social intelligence found in vertebrate societies, such as individual recognition, learning object manipulation by observation, and elements of cultural traditions. Insects also display emotion-like states, which may be linked to social behaviours such as rescuing others from danger. We review recent developments in insect social cognition and speculate that some forms of now-hardwired behaviour (e.g., nest construction) could have initially been the result of individual innovation and subsequent cultural spread, with evolution later cementing these behaviours into innate behaviour routines.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35570086
pii: S1364-6613(22)00085-7
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.04.001
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
578-592Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of interests No interests are declared.