Publications by authors named "Hiruni Samadi Galpayage Dona"
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- Animacy perception is the skill animals use to recognize whether objects are alive, essential for identifying social partners or threats for survival.
- Research indicates that both vertebrates and arthropods demonstrate this perceptual ability, though the term "animacy" has been less frequently used in studies involving arthropods.
- The review highlights evidence of biological motion detection, the use of static visual cues for individual recognition, particularly in paper wasps, and behaviors like thanatosis, where an animal pretends to be dead to manipulate perception of liveliness.
When counting-like abilities were first described in the honeybee in the mid-1990s, many scholars were sceptical, but such capacities have since been confirmed in a number of paradigms and also in other insect species. Counter to the intuitive notion that counting is a cognitively advanced ability, neural network analyses indicate that it can be mediated by very small neural circuits, and we should therefore perhaps not be surprised that insects and other small-brained animals such as some small fish exhibit such abilities. One outstanding question is how bees actually acquire numerical information.
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