TY - JOUR
T1 - Global perception in small brains
T2 - Topological pattern recognition in honey bees
AU - Chen, Lin
AU - Zhang, Shaowu
AU - Srinivasan, Mandyam V.
PY - 2003/5/27
Y1 - 2003/5/27
N2 - A series of experiments with honey bees demonstrate that their small brains nevertheless possess the ability for topological perception. Bees rapidly learned to discriminate patterns that are topologically different, and they generalized the learned cue to other novel patterns. By contrast, discrimination of topologically equivalent patterns was learned much more slowly and not as well. Thus, although the global nature of topological properties makes their computation difficult, topology may be a fundamental component of the vocabulary by which visual systems represent and characterize objects.
AB - A series of experiments with honey bees demonstrate that their small brains nevertheless possess the ability for topological perception. Bees rapidly learned to discriminate patterns that are topologically different, and they generalized the learned cue to other novel patterns. By contrast, discrimination of topologically equivalent patterns was learned much more slowly and not as well. Thus, although the global nature of topological properties makes their computation difficult, topology may be a fundamental component of the vocabulary by which visual systems represent and characterize objects.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0038621765&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.0732090100
DO - 10.1073/pnas.0732090100
M3 - Article
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 100
SP - 6884
EP - 6889
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 11
ER -