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: