Neuroscience: Intelligence in the Honeybee Mushroom Body

Sophie Caron; Larry F Abbott

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.02.011

Neuroscience: Intelligence in the Honeybee Mushroom Body

Curr Biol. 2017 Mar 20;27(6):R220-R223. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.02.011.

Authors

Sophie Caron¹, Larry F Abbott²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Neuroscience, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

Intelligence, in most people's conception, involves combining pieces of evidence to reach non-obvious conclusions. A recent theoretical study shows that intelligence-like brain functions can emerge from simple neural circuits, in this case the honeybee mushroom body.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Bees
Brain
Intelligence
Memory
Mushroom Bodies*
Neurosciences*

Grants and funding

T32 NS064929/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States