Individual recognition is associated with holistic face processing in Polistes paper wasps in a species-specific way
Individual recognition is associated with holistic face processing in Polistes paper wasps in a species-specific way
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个体识别与马蜂纸黄蜂的整体面部处理以物种特定的方式相关联
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2021
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A. Avarguès
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E. Tibbetts;Juanita Pardo;Julliana Ramirez;A. Avarguès
大多数识别是基于识别特征，但灵长类动物的面部识别专业化依赖于一种不同的机制，称为“整体处理”，其中面部特征结合在一起成为一个完形，而不是其部分的总和。在这里，我们测试是否在纸黄蜂的个人面部识别也涉及整体处理，使用修改的经典部分，整个测试在两个相关的纸黄蜂物种：Polistes fuscatus，使用面部模式，以单独识别同种，和Polistes dominula，缺乏个人识别。我们发现，P. fuscatus使用整体处理来区分P. fuscatus人脸图像，但不是P. dominula人脸图像。相比之下，P. dominula不依赖于整体处理来区分同种或异种面部图像。因此，褐蜂已经进化出了整体的面部处理，但这种能力是高度特异性的，并受到物种特异性和刺激特异性选择压力的影响。在远距离类群（灵长类，黄蜂）以及具有不同识别行为的密切相关类群（P. dominula，P. fuscatus）之间的分歧中朝向整体面部处理的收敛表明，整体处理可能是一种通用的适应性策略，以促进面部识别的专业知识。
Most recognition is based on identifying features, but specialization for face recognition in primates relies on a different mechanism, termed ‘holistic processing’ where facial features are bound together into a gestalt which is more than the sum of its parts. Here, we test whether individual face recognition in paper wasps also involved holistic processing using a modification of the classic part-whole test in two related paper wasp species: Polistes fuscatus, which use facial patterns to individually identify conspecifics, and Polistes dominula, which lacks individual recognition. We show that P. fuscatus use holistic processing to discriminate between P. fuscatus face images but not P. dominula face images. By contrast, P. dominula do not rely on holistic processing to discriminate between conspecific or heterospecific face images. Therefore, P. fuscatus wasps have evolved holistic face processing, but this ability is highly specific and shaped by species-specific and stimulus-specific selective pressures. Convergence towards holistic face processing in distant taxa (primates, wasps) as well as divergence among closely related taxa with different recognition behaviour (P. dominula, P. fuscatus) suggests that holistic processing may be a universal adaptive strategy to facilitate expertise in face recognition.