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- Title
Cognition: Your face looks familiar.
- Authors
Chittka, Lars; Dyer, Adrian
- Abstract
The article offers information on the study conducted by M. J. Sheehan and E. A. Tibbetts in the 2011 issue of "Science" regarding face recognition of Polistes fuscatus paper wasp. The authors have trained P. fuscatus and Polistes metricus to chose between normal and edited wasp faces and results show that P. fuscatus has higher face learning ability than P. metricus. It adds that the face recognition P. fuscatus is used in identifying social groups using modest neutral circuitry.
- Subjects
POLISTES; FACE perception; SHEEHAN, M. J.; TIBBETTS, E. A.; SCIENCE (Periodical); BEHAVIOR
- Publication
Nature, 2012, Vol 481, Issue 7380, p154
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/481154a