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Mental capacity of insects
Insect cognition is mental capacity in insects, and its study. The field developed from comparative psychology where early studies focused more on animal
Insect_cognition
Insect foraging cognition is the use of an insect's cognitive abilities to find food. Insects inhabit many diverse and complex environments. Cognition
Insect_foraging_cognition
Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals, including insect cognition. The study of animal conditioning and learning used
Animal_cognition
Field of study
Comparative cognition is the comparative study of the mechanisms and origins of cognition in various species, and is sometimes seen as more general than
Comparative_cognition
Mental process dealing with knowledge
Cognition encompasses mental processes that deal with knowledge. It includes psychological activities that acquire, store, retrieve, transform, or apply
Cognition
Argentinean-French neurobiologist and neuroethologist
international scientific journals in the fields of insect cognition, insect neurobiology and insect behavior, many of them being highly cited. He is an
Martin_Giurfa
Ethical consideration of insects
avoid injuring. Ahimsa Cruelty to animals Insect cognition Pain in invertebrates Welfare of farmed insects Keown, Damien (2005). Buddhist Ethics: A Very
Insects_in_ethics
Study of intelligence in birds
Animal Cognition. 9 (4): 377–391. doi:10.1007/s10071-006-0034-7. PMID 16909236. S2CID 30689821. Cook, Robert (2001). Avian Visual Cognition. Department
Bird_intelligence
Model of cognition's operation
Box-and-Arrow models, these models identify the components involved in cognition; Computational Models explain the "rules" that govern how information
Cognitive_model
Causes of cognitive abilities in animals
this cognitive ability evolved. Another way cognition has been studied in animals, specifically insects, is through a cognitive test battery. This method
Evolution_of_cognition
Insect behaviour is any pattern of behaviour by insects that helps them to survive and reproduce. Aspects include behaviour patterns for feeding, avoiding
Insect_behaviour
Control of harmful species
parasites. In homes and urban environments, the pests are the rodents, birds, insects and other organisms that share the habitat with humans, and that feed on
Pest_control
Management of honey bee colonies
used by medieval beekeepers to increase honey production Insects in ethics Insect cognition List of crop plants pollinated by bees More Than Honey – a
Beekeeping
Study of how insects interact with their environments
similar results, with some insects eating solely by chemoreception and some showing delayed decisions, suggesting cognition.) Both salicin and caffeine
Insect_ecology
S. (2006). "Rewardless flowers in the angiosperms and the role of insect cognition in their evolution." In: Waser, N. M., Ollerton. J., eds. Plant-pollinator
Pollination_of_orchids
German zoologist, ethologist and ecologist
distinguished for his work on the evolution of sensory systems and cognition, using insect-flower interactions as a model. Born in Germany, Chittka studied
Lars_Chittka
British bee expert
Biodiversity Research at University College London. Her research looks at insect cognition and how this is affected by the animals' environment. She has looked
Elli_Leadbeater
Tendency to misexecute routinized tasks if one tries to execute them consciously
"The Centipede's Dilemma" is a short poem that has lent its name to a psychological effect called the centipede effect or centipede syndrome. The centipede
The_Centipede's_Dilemma
Being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts
that this broadened definition is necessary to an understanding of human cognition. He suggests that any tool which is used to offload part of a cognitive
Cyborg
Selective breeding of plants and animals to serve humans
Breeds and Their Behavior". In Horowitz, Alexandra (ed.). Domestic Dog Cognition and Behavior. Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer. Cagan, Alex; Blass, Torsten
Domestication
Proposed cognition of plants
Intelligence that highlighted a plant's cognition through its colonial-organization skills reflecting insect swarm behaviors. This organizational skill
Plant_intelligence
Kind of cognitive bias
probability of individual events. This perspective proposes that human cognition has evolved to analyze counts of specific events, making individuals prone
Frequency_illusion
Social network mechanism of indirect coordination
agents and traces, complex distributed cognition is performed by remarkably simple organisms. This form of cognition long predates neurons in evolutionary
Stigmergy
Austrian cognitive biologist
evolution of intelligence in birds. Her research is focused on the physical cognition, play behavior, problem-solving and tool-making abilities in parrots and
Alice_Auersperg
Influence of decision making by emotions or irrelevant stimulus in animals
Inc. pp. 724–746. Bless, H.; Fiedler, K. & Strack, F. (2004). Social cognition: How individuals construct social reality. Hove and New York: Psychology
Cognitive_bias_in_animals
Totality of psychological phenomena
They are often employed in overlapping ways with the terms soul, spirit, cognition, intellect, intelligence, and brain, but their meanings are not exactly
Mind
Chemical emitted to trigger a response among the same species
unicellular prokaryotes to complex multicellular eukaryotes. Their use among insects has been particularly well documented. In addition, some vertebrates, plants
Pheromone
How ants communicate
Members". Insects. 10 (11): 383. doi:10.3390/insects10110383. PMC 6921000. PMID 31683791. Reznikova, Zhanna (November 2020). "Spatial cognition in the context
Ant_communication
Branch of ecology studying cognition in social and natural contexts
similar to models of collective cognition in other social animal groups, which use agent based models to understanding insect swarming, fish schooling, bird
Cognitive_ecology
Clusters of neurons in the peripheral nervous system
and brainstem, associated with a variety of functions: motor control, cognition, emotions, and learning. Partly due to this ambiguity, the Terminologia
Ganglion
Intellectual capacity of fish
much less research into fish cognition than into those types of animals, and much remains unknown about fish cognition, though evidence of complex navigational
Fish_intelligence
Animal self-awareness test
canines. He tested his own dog, but his results were inconclusive. Dog cognition researcher Alexandra Horowitz formalized Bekoff's idea in a controlled
Mirror_test
animals, including mammals, amphibians, reptiles, as well as some birds and insects. Pliny discusses these animals as being a part of specific categories,
Pliny_on_mammals
Species of bird
evidence from the hyperspace analog to language (HAL) model". Animal Cognition. 16 (1): 789–801. doi:10.1007/s10071-013-0613-3. PMID 23417559. S2CID 11359605
Grey_parrot
Evolution-related timelines
to identify clear correlations between sociality and cognition because of cases like social insects. In humans, societies are usually held together by the
Evolution of human intelligence
Evolution_of_human_intelligence
Chilean scientist and philosopher (1946–2001)
cross-fertilization of ideas and disciplines. Varela supported embodied cognition, viewing human cognition and consciousness in terms of the enactive structures in which
Francisco_Varela
Collective behaviour of entities that swarm
interdisciplinary topic. As a term, swarming is applied particularly to insects, but can also be applied to any other entity or animal that exhibits swarm
Swarm_behaviour
Individual living life form
organisms; a colony of eusocial insects is organised adaptively, and has germ-soma specialisation, with some insects reproducing, others not, like cells
Organism
Early six legged insect-like robot from the 1990s
functionality. In order to mimic this trait found in insects Brooks "removed all cognition processors from Genghis and left only the sensors and the code/hardware
Genghis_(robot)
believed that plants developed caffeine as a chemical defense against insects. A study conducted by the Aquaculture Institute looked into the effects
Effect of psychoactive drugs on animals
Effect_of_psychoactive_drugs_on_animals
Independent evolution of similar features
homoplasy. The recurrent evolution of flight is a classic example, as flying insects, birds, pterosaurs, and bats have independently evolved the useful capacity
Convergent_evolution
Attribution of human traits to non-human entities
Anthropomorphism is the ascribing of human personality, appearance, conduct, cognition, or other attributes to non-human entities, often including non-human
Anthropomorphism
Superfamily of primates
range of cognitive tests—though there is relatively little data on gibbon cognition. The early studies by Wolfgang Köhler demonstrated exceptional problem-solving
Ape
Ability of many animals to find their way accurately without maps or instruments
accurately without maps or instruments. Birds such as the Arctic tern, insects such as the monarch butterfly and fish such as the salmon regularly migrate
Animal_navigation
Biological concepts and questions with insufficient resolutions
are all the different types of neuron and what do they do in the brain? Cognition and decisions: How and where does the brain evaluate reward value and
List of unsolved problems in biology
List_of_unsolved_problems_in_biology
Study of signs
genetics. A central approach in cognitive semiotics understands mind and cognition in terms of practical engagement with the world rather than theoretical
Semiotics
Arboreal primate of west-central Africa
span for a potto in captivity is 26 years. In a study of strepsirrhine cognition conducted in 1964, pottos were seen to explore and manipulate unfamiliar
Potto
Primary female sex hormone
during pregnancy. Estrogens are synthesized in all vertebrates and some insects. Quantitatively, estrogens circulate at lower levels than androgens in
Estrogen
merged with immediate experience. Metacognition is defined as "cognition about cognition", or "knowing about knowing." It can take many forms; it includes
Animal_consciousness
assessing another human's pheromones. It affects the sexual attraction of insects and mammals. The major histocompatibility complex genes are important for
Body odour and sexual attraction
Body_odour_and_sexual_attraction
American biologist
nature and biology. Heinrich has made major contributions to the study of insect physiology and behavior, as well as bird behavior. In addition to many scientific
Bernd_Heinrich
Awareness of internal and external existence
imagination, and volition. Today, it often includes various forms of cognition, experience, feeling, or perception. It may be awareness, awareness of
Consciousness
American entomologist (1867–1923)
systematically examine the question of whether animals display complex cognition, studying arthropods such as spiders and bees. He also examined differences
Charles Henry Turner (zoologist)
Charles_Henry_Turner_(zoologist)
Fad in American colleges in the late 1930s
topics Animal cognition Animal consciousness Animal law Critical animal studies Environmental ethics Ethics of uncertain sentience Insects in ethics Wild
Goldfish_swallowing
Gill-bearing non-tetrapod aquatic vertebrates
Ricin Tutin Invertebrate toxins Scorpion: Androctonus australis hector insect toxin Charybdotoxin Maurotoxin Agitoxin Margatoxin Slotoxin Scyllatoxin
Fish
Form of figurative language
thought processes. It has been argued that analogy lies at "the core of cognition". The English word analogy derives from the Latin analogia, itself derived
Analogy
Monoamine neurotransmitter
nervous system (CNS) and also peripheral tissues. It is involved in mood, cognition, reward, learning, memory, and physiological processes such as vomiting
Serotonin
Bluffing imitation of a species with strong defenses
explanations have been proposed for this, including limitations in predators' cognition. While visual signals have attracted the most study, Batesian mimicry
Batesian_mimicry
Trait that determines an organism's sexually reproductive function
systems in animals include the ZW system in birds and the XO system in some insects. Various environmental systems include temperature-dependent sex determination
Biological_sex
Species of bird
vocalise less. Their behaviour in group environments shows their high cognition by demonstrating their complex interactions through social play and communication
Kākā
Brain and spinal cord
connections to areas of the cerebral cortex involved in language and cognition. These connections have been shown by the use of medical imaging techniques
Central_nervous_system
Evolutionary strategy
model, such as a wasp, is harmful, and is avoided by the dupe, such as an insect-eating bird. Birds hunt by sight, so the mimicry in that case is visual
Mimicry
Experience of feeling or emotion
examined with noted differences indicated, and some argue affect and cognition are under the control of separate and partially independent systems that
Affect_(psychology)
Small domesticated carnivorous mammal
Arahori, M.; Saito, A.; Fujita, K.; Kuroshima, H. (2021). "Socio-spatial cognition in cats: Mentally mapping owner's location from voice". PLOS ONE. 16 (11)
Cat
Genus of mammals belonging to the New World monkeys
but will split up to forage during the day. Meta-analyses on primate cognition studies conducted in the 2000s indicated spider monkeys are the most intelligent
Spider_monkey
Study of mental functions and behaviors
interdisciplinary field, psychologists are involved in research on perception, cognition, attention, emotion, intelligence, subjective experiences, motivation
Psychology
American philosopher (1957–2023)
utilitarianism. The project's initial monograph, Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition, was released by Oxford in 2012. In the book, Varner moved away from his
Gary_Varner
Cognitive capacity of horses
evident in horse's behavior. The scientific discipline that studies equine cognition, at the crossroads of ethology and animal psychology, is cognitive ethology
Equine_intelligence
British-Canadian entomologist
covers Arctic pollination, insect colour perception and floral colours, bee biology, thermoregulation in plants and insects; arctic, alpine, tropical and
Peter_G._Kevan
Cognitive process of visually interpreting the human face
humans. The perception of facial features is an important part of social cognition. Information gathered from the face helps people understand each other's
Face_perception
Large, domesticated, cloven-hooved herbivores
familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics by using only head visual cues". Animal Cognition. 14 (2): 279–290. doi:10.1007/s10071-010-0361-6. PMID 21132446. S2CID 39755371
Cattle
British philosopher
concept of sentience, whether artificial intelligence or animals like insects may be sentient, and how to handle the uncertainty. Birch read for a Bachelor
Jonathan_Birch_(philosopher)
Inferring the speed and direction of objects
removed], Duke University Center for Vision Research, York University iLab, University of Southern California Vision and Cognition, University of Tübingen
Motion_perception
Computer composed of organic material
generated by the non-linear chaotic element. Cognitive biology evaluates cognition as a basic biological function. W. Tecumseh Fitch, a professor of cognitive
Wetware_computer
Bond formed between animals of different species
PMID 16786521. S2CID 2018093. Hare, B.; et al. (2002). "The domestication of cognition in dogs". Science. 298 (5598): 1634–1636. doi:10.1126/science.1072702
Interspecies_friendship
Intelligence in machines
that this approach would be able to imitate all the processes of human cognition, especially perception, robotics, learning and pattern recognition, and
Artificial_intelligence
Family of birds
specialized for feeding on flower nectar, but all species also consume small insects. Hummingbirds are known by that name because of the humming sound created
Hummingbird
Family of fishes
known for their unique predation technique of "shooting down" land-based insects and other small prey with jets of water spit from their specialized mouths
Archerfish
Study of non-human animal behavior and mental processes
Issues in Comparative Cognition Wasserman & Zentall (eds) (2006); Comparative Cognition Shettleworth, Sara J. (2010); Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior
Comparative_psychology
Fear or uneasiness of objects with small, irregular shaped holes
Aakash; Eacott, Madeline J. (January 7, 2026). "What causes trypophobia?". Cognition & Emotion: 1–16. doi:10.1080/02699931.2025.2606074. ISSN 1464-0600. PMID 41503743
Trypophobia
Class of ectothermic tetrapods
2015). "Numerical discrimination by frogs (Bombina orientalis)". Animal Cognition. 18 (1): 219–229. doi:10.1007/s10071-014-0791-7. hdl:11577/3061899. PMID 25108417
Amphibian
Computing concept
highly distributed (as in the case of distributed organisms such as social insect colonies or slime mold) or it may be a special-purpose module. The action
Action_selection
Solving problems using biological models
Parallel distributed processing : explorations in the microstructure of cognition. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-18120-7. OCLC 916899323. Wilson, David Sloan; Sober
Bio-inspired_computing
Species of bird in the crow family Corvidae
the wild, research studies have demonstrated that rooks can do so in cognition tests where tools are required, and can rival, and in some circumstances
Rook_(bird)
Vertebrate brain region
been in dominance: response inhibition, episodic memory, and spatial cognition. The response inhibition theory (caricatured by John O'Keefe and Lynn
Hippocampus
Genus of spiders
Ximena J. (2021). "Jumping spiders: An exceptional group for comparative cognition studies". Learning & Behavior. 49 (3): 276–291. doi:10.3758/s13420-020-00445-2
Portia_(spider)
Cognitive and sensory processes in bees
includes cognitive and sensory processes in all kinds of bees, that is the insects in the seven families making up the clade Anthophila. Some species have
Bee learning and communication
Bee_learning_and_communication
Largest living land animal
R. W.; Bates, L.; Moss C. J. (2009). "Elephant cognition in primate perspective". Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews. 4: 65–79. doi:10.3819/ccbr
Elephant
American ethnobotanist, lecturer, and writer (1946–2000)
Alchemical Dream: Rebirth of the Great Work (2008) Manifesting the Mind (2009) Cognition Factor (2009) DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2010) 2012: Time for Change (2010)
Terence_McKenna
Study of epigenetics' influencing behavior
experiences and the environment to produce individual differences in behaviour, cognition, personality, and mental health. Epigenetic gene regulation involves changes
Behavioral_epigenetics
Dermal sensation with no physical cause
induces paresthesias. A less common kind is formication, the sensation of insects crawling on or under the skin. Paresthesias of the hands, feet, legs, and
Paresthesia
Type of small omnivorous rodent
behavior has previously been thought to occur only in animals with advanced cognition, such as humans, apes, and elephants. The vole clock is a method of dating
Vole
Family of perching birds
influences that, during ontogeny, contributes to adult cognition" is required for the study of cognition. Corvids are reservoirs (carriers) for the West Nile
Corvidae
Faculty of mind to store and retrieve data
Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease can also affect memory and cognition. Hyperthymesia, or hyperthymesic syndrome, is a disorder that affects
Memory
Organ found in humans and other animals
"heart-mind" as the ancient Chinese believed the heart was the center of human cognition and was not to be confused with the structure called the pericardium.
Heart
Genus of Asian apes
C. P.; Johnson, V. (2006). "Do some taxa have better domain-general cognition than others? A meta-analysis of nonhuman primate studies". Evolutionary
Orangutan
Rapid series of movements by an animal
MC (March 2009). "Spatial cognition in the gerbil: computing optimal escape routes from visual threats". Animal Cognition. 12 (2): 333–45. doi:10
Escape_response
American researcher, ethicist, and essayist
to moral decisions, while allowing that differences in communication, cognition, and social relationships can sometimes justify different treatment. He
Brian_Tomasik
Branch of psychology
Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify
Evolutionary_psychology
Cat with a three-colored coat
behavioral problems such as being antisocial; this is caused by poor cognition and developmental issues. Cats with this chromosome abnormality tend to
Calico_cat
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