A study shows that honeybees can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like we humans do.
-school or junior primary school, much like we humans do with Arabic and Roman numerals.Language is the ability to learn and use a system of symbolic representations for communication. This includes a capacity to relate signs to abstract information.
We are interested in the question of whether numerical symbols are truly universal —that is, whether they also work for species that are not human.The honeybee is a superorganism for the study of comparative information processing in a brain. In 1973was awarded a Nobel Prize in the field of Physiology and Medicine for his demonstrations that the honeybee can communicate with hive mates via a symbolic dance language.
Bees were trained to fly into a Y-shaped maze. Inside the maze the bee would view a stimulus. The bee would then fly into the decision chamber where it would view two options, one correct and one incorrect., while a second group was trained to match a, they would first see the sign and then have the option to choose two or three shapes. If bees were learning to match ato a sign, they would first see a number of items, such as three squares, and then have the option to choose from two signs.
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