The Fitness Value of Temporal Cognition in Bees

蜜蜂时间认知的适应度值

• 批准号: 2843239
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2843239
• 关键词: Fitness; Value; Temporal; Cognition; Bees

From motor control and communication to predator avoidance and foraging, animals must navigate an environment that changes dynamically in time. For this reason, in many domains the ability to perceive and process time (temporal cognition) is crucial for fitness. The perception of time can be influenced by various factors including attention, memory and internal emotional states, suggesting that we can use time processing abilities as a proxy to assess animal welfare in natural settings. This PhD project will look at the time processing abilities of different bee species in the laboratory and in the wild, linking cognitive processes and welfare states. We will test bees' ability to use temporal cues to guide foraging, the cognitive limits in processing temporal complexity and the link to communication. We will test the influence of internal emotion-like states in bees on their time processing abilities and, building on this, we will develop an apparatus for automated behavioural studies in wild populations to assess these links in a naturalistic setting.

从运动控制和交流到躲避捕食者和觅食，动物必须在随时间动态变化的环境中生存。因此，在许多领域，感知和处理时间的能力（时间认知）对于健康至关重要。对时间的感知可能受到注意力、记忆和内部情绪状态等多种因素的影响，这表明我们可以使用时间处理能力作为评估自然环境中动物福利的指标。该博士项目将研究实验室和野外不同蜜蜂物种的时间处理能力，将认知过程和福利状态联系起来。我们将测试蜜蜂使用时间线索指导觅食的能力、处理时间复杂性的认知限制以及与交流的联系。我们将测试蜜蜂内部类似情绪的状态对其时间处理能力的影响，并在此基础上，我们将开发一种用于野生种群自动行为研究的装置，以评估自然环境中的这些联系。