[BERG] BERG seminar this week

[Gema Martin-Ordas]

Dear all,

On Wednesday this week at 4pm, Dr. Claire Hemingway (Texas University, USA) will be talking about decision-making in bumblebees. Please, see below the title and short abstract for her talk.

This meeting will be online (link below).

Economic foraging in a floral marketplace: decision making in bumblebees

When making decisions, animals often compare available options to those that were recently encountered. Such decisions can be complex, often requiring individuals to compare multiple features associated with each option and their reward payoffs, to those of recently encountered options. Bumblebees are a useful system to address this topic, given that they forage on a wide variety of flowers, and in doing so rapidly integrate information about floral stimuli and rewards to learn about and make decisions between flowers. I will present recent work showing how reward perception in bumblebees is affected not only by recent experience with rewards, but also experience with associated stimuli. I will also discuss how this form of evaluation plays out in a natural foraging environment. Finally, I discuss ongoing work focused on how bees evaluate multiple dimensions of reward quality and how these multi-attribute choices can bias decision making. These findings shed insight on general processes of reward perception and decision-making in animals.

Best,
Gema

Schedule for future meetings:

Date

Time

Speaker

Topic

Location

19/10/2022

4pm

Kristine Gandia (University of Stirling)

TBC

F2F (Common Room, Psych)

02/11/2022

3-5pm

Joint meeting—BERG & BES

TBC

F2F (Common Room, Psych)

09/11/2022

4pm

Francesca de Petrillo (Newcastle University, UK)

Decision-making in primates

Online

16/11/2022

4pm

Stephen Ferrigno (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

Origins of human thought

Online

23/11/2022

4pm

Sarah Weir (University of Stirling)

TBC

Online

30/11/2022

4pm

Sabrina Brando (University of Stirling)

Individual, leadership, and organisational aspects of human wellbeing in zoos and aquariums

F2F (Common Room, Psych)

07/12/2022

4pm

Gloria Sabbatini (Istc-CNR Unit of Cognitive Primatology & Primate Center, Italy)

Tool use in primates

Online

14/12/2022

3pm

Elias Garcia Pelegrin (University of Cambridge, UK)

Crows and understanding of magic tricks

Online





Link to the online meetings:


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