Honeybee (Apis mellifera) vision can discriminate between and recognise images of human faces
Honeybee (Apis mellifera) vision can discriminate between and recognise images of human faces
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DOI：
10.1242/jeb.01929
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发表时间：
2005-12-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Chittka, L
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作者：
Dyer, AG;Neumeyer, C;Chittka, L
使用面部线索识别个人是一种重要的能力。有证据表明，哺乳动物的大脑可能有专门的神经回路来完成面部识别任务，尽管最近的一些研究对这些发现提出了质疑。因此，要了解识别人脸是否需要物种特异性的神经处理，重要的是要知道非人类动物是否能够解决这个困难的空间任务。蜜蜂（Apis mellifera）进行了测试，以评估是否没有进化历史的动物区分人形面孔可能能够学习这项任务。使用差异条件反射，训练个体蜜蜂访问目标面部刺激，并避免来自人类心理学中使用的标准面部识别测试的类似干扰刺激。在非奖励试验中评估了性能，蜜蜂以大于80%的准确率将目标面部与类似的干扰物区分开来。当使用新的干扰物时，蜜蜂也表现出对目标面孔的高水平选择，这表明了面部识别的能力。当刺激旋转180度时，表现有很大的下降，这表明可能会破坏视觉加工。
Recognising individuals using facial cues is an important ability. There is evidence that the mammalian brain may have specialised neural circuitry for face recognition tasks, although some recent work questions these findings. Thus, to understand if recognising human faces does require species-specific neural processing, it is important to know if non-human animals might be able to solve this difficult spatial task. Honeybees (Apis mellifera) were tested to evaluate whether an animal with no evolutionary history for discriminating between humanoid faces may be able to learn this task. Using differential conditioning, individual bees were trained to visit target face stimuli and to avoid similar distractor stimuli from a standard face recognition test used in human psychology. Performance was evaluated in non-rewarded trials and bees discriminated the target face from a similar distractor with greater than 80% accuracy. When novel distractors were used, bees also demonstrated a high level of choices for the target face, indicating an ability for face recognition. When the stimuli were rotated by 180 degrees there was a large drop in performance, indicating a possible disruption to configural type visual processing.