Interindividual variation in the use of social information during learning in honeybees.

ABSTRACT: Slow-fast differences in cognition among individuals have been proposed to be an outcome of the speed-accuracy trade-off in decision-making. Based on the different costs associated with acquiring information via individual and social learning, we hypothesized that slow-fast cognitive differences would also be tied to the adoption of these different learning modes. Since foragers in honeybee colonies likely have both these information acquisition modes available to them, we chose to test them for interindividual differences in individual and social learning. By measuring performance on a learning task with and without a social cue and quantifying learning rate and maximum accuracy in these two tasks, our results show the existence of a speed-accuracy trade-off in both the individual and the

SUBMITTER: Tait C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8790335 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature