Quantifying objects: Bees recognize that six is more than four
Monday, March 2, 2020 - 11:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Writing in iScience, zoologists have shown that insects have the cognitive abilities to perform so called numerosity estimation, allowing them to solve simple mathematical problems. Zoologist Professor Dr. Martin Paul Nawrot and doctoral student Hannes Rapp from the "Computational Systems Neuroscience' research group at the University of Cologne demonstrated these abilities in a computational model inspired by the honeybee.