Bees undergo training

Research, over bees, they are exposed to learning and can distinguish images: recognizing colors, shapes and patterns. There was an experimental theme which - whether it is possible to teach bees to distinguish artistic styles - Impressionism Claude Monet and Cubism Pablo Picasso. The bees were one at a time in the box. First the bees were in the tunnel - 125 centimeters, at the end of the tunnel there were two holes in separate chambers. 1 tunnel - reward in the form of sugar syrup, 2 tunnel - empty. At the entrance to the cells, the screen is weighed, so that the insects can not see in advance what the reward is. Bees could use the hint when choosing a camera, these are small paintings by Monet and Picasso, which were hung over the holes. The result - honey bees learned to distinguish five creations of Monet and Picasso. Does not matter the brightness, color, spatial frequency information. Insects recognized other pictures of this style, this is the ability of insects to generalize. Bees can distinguish between paintings by Monet and Picasso, in which way highlighting and memorizing the characteristic for the style of visual information. Honey bees have a highly developed ability to distinguish features of the landscape, types of flowers and human faces. Bees have a small brain - about one million neurons, but they can handle complex visual information. For comparison, the human brain contains about 25,000,000,000 neurons.