Lars Chittka

Affiliations

School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.

Publications (30)

Bumblebees Learn a Relational Rule but Switch to a Win-Stay/Lose-Switch Heuristic After Extensive Training.

Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

Avec: HaDi MaBouDi , Cwyn Solvi , Lars Chittka

Social cognition in insects.

Trends in cognitive sciences

Avec: Lars Chittka , Natacha Rossi

Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone.

Nature

Avec: Alice D Bridges , Amanda Royka , Tara Wilson , Charlotte Lockwood , Jasmin Richter , Mikko Juusola , Lars Chittka

Noxious stimulation induces self-protective behavior in bumblebees.

iScience

Avec: Matilda Gibbons , Elisa Pasquini , Amelia Kowalewska , Eva Read , Sam Gibson , Andrew Crump , Cwyn Solvi , Elisabetta Versace , Lars Chittka

A spatial network analysis of resource partitioning between bumblebees foraging on artificial flowers in a flight cage.

Movement ecology

Avec: Cristian Pasquaretta , Raphael Jeanson , Jerome Pansanel , Nigel E Raine , Lars Chittka , Mathieu Lihoreau

Animal Cognition: The Self-Image of a Bumblebee.

Current biology : CB

Avec: Joanna Brebner , Lars Chittka

Sub-cell scale features govern the placement of new cells by honeybees during comb construction.

Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology

Avec: Vincent Gallo , Alice D Bridges , Joseph L Woodgate , Lars Chittka

Does bumblebee preference of continuous over interrupted strings in string-pulling tasks indicate means-end comprehension?

eLife

Avec: Chao Wen , Yuyi Lu , Cwyn Solvi , Shunping Dong , Cai Wang , Xiujun Wen , Haijun Xiao , Shikui Dong , Junbao Wen , Fei Peng , Lars Chittka

Bumble bees display cross-modal object recognition between visual and tactile senses.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Avec: Cwyn Solvi , Selene Gutierrez Al-Khudhairy , Lars Chittka

Animal Behaviour: Conformity and the Beginnings of Culture in an Insect.

Current biology : CB

Avec: Alice D Bridges , Lars Chittka

Insect-Inspired Sequential Inspection Strategy Enables an Artificial Network of Four Neurons to Estimate Numerosity.

iScience

Avec: Vera Vasas , Lars Chittka

Different effects of reward value and saliency during bumblebee visual search for multiple rewarding targets.

Animal cognition

Avec: Vivek Nityananda , Lars Chittka

Motivational trade-offs and modulation of nociception in bumblebees.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Avec: Matilda Gibbons , Elisabetta Versace , Andrew Crump , Bartosz Baran , Lars Chittka

Is it time for insect researchers to consider their subjects' welfare?

PLoS biology

Avec: Andrew Crump , Matilda Gibbons , Meghan Barrett , Jonathan Birch , Lars Chittka

How foresight might support the behavioral flexibility of arthropods.

Current opinion in neurobiology

Avec: Clint J Perry , Lars Chittka

Bumblebees attend to both the properties of the string and the target in string-pulling tasks, but prioritize the features of the string.

Insect science

Avec: Dongbo Zhou , Shunping Dong , Jin Ge , Lars Chittka , Cai Wang , Chao Wen , Junbao Wen

Bumblebees acquire alternative puzzle-box solutions via social learning.

PLoS biology

Avec: Alice D Bridges , HaDi MaBouDi , Olga Procenko , Charlotte Lockwood , Yaseen Mohammed , Amelia Kowalewska , José Eric Romero González , Joseph L Woodgate , Lars Chittka

Bees learn to dance.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Avec: Lars Chittka , Natacha Rossi

Descending control of nociception in insects?

Proceedings. Biological sciences

Avec: Matilda Gibbons , Sajedeh Sarlak , Lars Chittka

Bumblebees Use Sequential Scanning of Countable Items in Visual Patterns to Solve Numerosity Tasks.

Integrative and comparative biology

Avec: HaDi MaBouDi , H Samadi Galpayage Dona , Elia Gatto , Olli J Loukola , Emma Buckley , Panayiotis D Onoufriou , Peter Skorupski , Lars Chittka

Randomly weighted receptor inputs can explain the large diversity of colour-coding neurons in the bee visual system.

Scientific reports

Avec: Vera Vasas , Fei Peng , HaDi MaBouDi , Lars Chittka

What is cognition?

Current biology : CB

Avec: Tim Bayne , David Brainard , Richard W Byrne , Lars Chittka , Nicky Clayton , Cecilia Heyes , Jennifer Mather , Bence Ölveczky , Michael Shadlen , Thomas Suddendorf , Barbara Webb

Caste- and pesticide-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticide exposure on gene expression in bumblebees.

Molecular ecology

Avec: Thomas J Colgan , Isabel K Fletcher , Andres N Arce , Richard J Gill , Ana Ramos Rodrigues , Eckart Stolle , Lars Chittka , Yannick Wurm

Harmonic radar tracking reveals random dispersal pattern of bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) queens after hibernation.

Scientific reports

Avec: James C Makinson , Joseph L Woodgate , Andy Reynolds , Elizabeth A Capaldi , Clint J Perry , Lars Chittka

Temporal correlation of elevated PRMT1 gene expression with mushroom body neurogenesis during bumblebee brain development.

Journal of insect physiology

Avec: Cui Guan , Michaela Egertová , Clint J Perry , Lars Chittka , Alexandra Chittka

Gut microbiome drives individual memory variation in bumblebees.

Nature communications

Avec: Li Li , Cwyn Solvi , Feng Zhang , Zhaoyang Qi , Lars Chittka , Wei Zhao

Harmonic radar tracking reveals that honeybee drones navigate between multiple aerial leks.

iScience

Avec: Joseph L Woodgate , James C Makinson , Natacha Rossi , Ka S Lim , Andrew M Reynolds , Christopher J Rawlings , Lars Chittka

Genomic Signatures of Recent Adaptation in a Wild Bumblebee.

Molecular biology and evolution

Avec: Thomas J Colgan , Andres N Arce , Richard J Gill , Ana Ramos Rodrigues , Abdoulie Kanteh , Elizabeth J Duncan , Li Li , Lars Chittka , Yannick Wurm

Discrimination of edge orientation by bumblebees.

PloS one

Avec: Marie Guiraud , Mark Roper , Stephan Wolf , Joseph L Woodgate , Lars Chittka

Bumblebees retrieve only the ordinal ranking of foraging options when comparing memories obtained in distinct settings.

eLife

Avec: Cwyn Solvi , Yonghe Zhou , Yunxiao Feng , Yuyi Lu , Mark Roper , Li Sun , Rebecca J Reid , Lars Chittka , Andrew B Barron , Fei Peng

Réseau de co-auteurs

Cwyn Solvi 6 collaborations

Joseph L Woodgate 5 collaborations

HaDi MaBouDi 4 collaborations

Alice D Bridges 4 collaborations

Matilda Gibbons 4 collaborations

Natacha Rossi 3 collaborations

Andrew Crump 3 collaborations

Fei Peng 3 collaborations

Clint J Perry 3 collaborations

Charlotte Lockwood 2 collaborations

Amelia Kowalewska 2 collaborations

Elisabetta Versace 2 collaborations

Chao Wen 2 collaborations

Yuyi Lu 2 collaborations

Shunping Dong 2 collaborations

Cai Wang 2 collaborations

Junbao Wen 2 collaborations

Vera Vasas 2 collaborations

Thomas J Colgan 2 collaborations

Andres N Arce 2 collaborations

Richard J Gill 2 collaborations

Ana Ramos Rodrigues 2 collaborations

Yannick Wurm 2 collaborations

James C Makinson 2 collaborations

Li Li 2 collaborations

Mark Roper 2 collaborations

Amanda Royka 1 collaboration

Tara Wilson 1 collaboration

Jasmin Richter 1 collaboration

Mikko Juusola 1 collaboration

Elisa Pasquini 1 collaboration

Eva Read 1 collaboration

Sam Gibson 1 collaboration

Cristian Pasquaretta 1 collaboration

Raphael Jeanson 1 collaboration

Jerome Pansanel 1 collaboration

Nigel E Raine 1 collaboration

Mathieu Lihoreau 1 collaboration

Joanna Brebner 1 collaboration

Vincent Gallo 1 collaboration

Xiujun Wen 1 collaboration

Haijun Xiao 1 collaboration

Shikui Dong 1 collaboration

Selene Gutierrez Al-Khudhairy 1 collaboration

Vivek Nityananda 1 collaboration

Bartosz Baran 1 collaboration

Meghan Barrett 1 collaboration

Jonathan Birch 1 collaboration

Dongbo Zhou 1 collaboration

Jin Ge 1 collaboration

Olga Procenko 1 collaboration

Yaseen Mohammed 1 collaboration

José Eric Romero González 1 collaboration

Sajedeh Sarlak 1 collaboration

H Samadi Galpayage Dona 1 collaboration

Elia Gatto 1 collaboration

Olli J Loukola 1 collaboration

Emma Buckley 1 collaboration

Panayiotis D Onoufriou 1 collaboration

Peter Skorupski 1 collaboration

Tim Bayne 1 collaboration

David Brainard 1 collaboration

Richard W Byrne 1 collaboration

Nicky Clayton 1 collaboration

Cecilia Heyes 1 collaboration

Jennifer Mather 1 collaboration

Bence Ölveczky 1 collaboration

Michael Shadlen 1 collaboration

Thomas Suddendorf 1 collaboration

Barbara Webb 1 collaboration

Isabel K Fletcher 1 collaboration

Eckart Stolle 1 collaboration

Andy Reynolds 1 collaboration

Elizabeth A Capaldi 1 collaboration

Cui Guan 1 collaboration

Michaela Egertová 1 collaboration

Alexandra Chittka 1 collaboration

Feng Zhang 1 collaboration

Zhaoyang Qi 1 collaboration

Wei Zhao 1 collaboration

Ka S Lim 1 collaboration

Andrew M Reynolds 1 collaboration

Christopher J Rawlings 1 collaboration

Abdoulie Kanteh 1 collaboration

Elizabeth J Duncan 1 collaboration

Marie Guiraud 1 collaboration

Stephan Wolf 1 collaboration

Yonghe Zhou 1 collaboration

Yunxiao Feng 1 collaboration

Li Sun 1 collaboration

Rebecca J Reid 1 collaboration

Andrew B Barron 1 collaboration