Are bigger brains better

Abstract

rare relatively enlarged in the social insects. In 1929, contingencies [24], learning landmark sequences and linking vector instructions to landmarks [25,26]. Foraging from flowers requires the successful identification and classification of the sensory signals that identify the most rewarding targets, and indeed in this context bees display several cognitive abilities previously attributed exclusively to ‘higher ’ vertebrates, including, for example, simple forms of rule learning and categorisation [7,27]