A social insect perspective on the evolution of social learning mechanisms

An associative account of avian navigation

(2017) Tim Guilford et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

The evolution of cognitive mechanisms in response to cultural innovations

(2017) Arnon Lotem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trial-and-error copying of demonstrated actions reveals how fledglings learn to ‘imitate’ their mothers

(2017) Noa Truskanov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bumblebees show cognitive flexibility by improving on an observed complex behavior

(2017) Olli J. Loukola et al.   SCIENCE

Alarm substances induce associative social learning in honeybees, Apis mellifera

(2016) Erika H. Dawson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Drosophila mate copying correlates with atmospheric pressure in a speed learning situation

(2016) Anne-Cecile Dagaeff et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Copy-when-uncertain: bumblebees rely on social information when rewards are highly variable

(2016) Marco Smolla et al.   Biology Letters

Foraging Bumble Bees Weigh the Reliability of Personal and Social Information

(2016) Aimee S. Dunlap et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

What evolves in the evolution of social learning?

(2015) E. Leadbeater   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Homo imitans? Seven reasons why imitation couldn't possibly be associative

(2015) Cecilia Heyes   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Experimental evolution of sensitivity to a stimulus domain alone is not an example of prepared learning

(2015) Dominic M. Dwyer   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Not-so-social learning strategies

(2015) C. Heyes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mirror neurons: From origin to function

(2014) Richard Cook et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Biased social transmission in Drosophila oviposition choice

(2014) Marine Battesti et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Observational Conditioning in Flower Choice Copying by Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris): Influence of Observer Distance and Demonstrator Movement

(2014) Aurore Avarguès-Weber et al.   PLoS One

Experimental evolution of prepared learning

(2014) A. S. Dunlap et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) use social information as an indicator of safety in dangerous environments

(2014) E. H. Dawson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Insights from insects about adaptive social information use

(2014) Christoph Grüter et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Social learning drives handedness in nectar-robbing bumblebees

(2013) D. Goulson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Imitation and local enhancement: Detrimental effects of consensus definitions on analyses of social learning in animals

(2013) Bennett G. Galef   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Learning by Observation Emerges from Simple Associations in an Insect Model

(2013) Erika H. Dawson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Spread of Social Information and Dynamics of Social Transmission within Drosophila Groups

(2012) Marine Battesti et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Associative learning and animal cognition

(2012) A. Dickinson   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Simple minds: a qualified defence of associative learning

(2012) C. Heyes   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Coevolution of learning and data-acquisition mechanisms: a model for cognitive evolution

(2012) A. Lotem et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Bumblebees Foraging under Predation Risk

(2012) Friedrich Lenz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Conspecific and Heterospecific Information Use in Bumblebees

(2012) Erika H. Dawson et al.   PLoS One

Do inexperienced bumblebee foragers use scent marks as social information?

(2011) Ellouise Leadbeater et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

What's social about social learning?

(2011) Cecilia Heyes   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence

(2011) S. M. Reader et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Clever animals and killjoy explanations in comparative psychology

(2010) Sara J. Shettleworth   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Public Versus Personal Information for Mate Copying in an Invertebrate

(2009) Frédéric Mery et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Associative sequence learning: the role of experience in the development of imitation and the mirror system

(2009) C. Catmur et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs and False Alarms in Bee Responses to Cryptic Predators

(2008) Thomas C. Ings et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The response of the honeybee dance to uncertain rewards

(2008) S. Seefeldt et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Formation of excitatory and inhibitory associations between absent events.

(2008) Peter C. Holland et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL LEARNING AND COGNITION

Social transmission of nectar-robbing behaviour in bumble-bees

(2008) E. Leadbeater et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES