Insect cognition Insect cognition Insect cognition describes the mental capacities and study of those capacities in insects. The field developed from comparative psychology where early studies focused more on animal behavior. Researchers have examined insect cognition in bees, fruit flies, and wasps. Research questions consist of experiments aimed to evaluate insects abilities with perception, attention, memory (wasp multiple nest), spatial cognition, tools use, problem solving, and concepts. Unlike in animal behavior the concept of group cognition plays a big part in insect studies. It is hypothesized some insect classes like ant and bees think with a group cognitive to function within their
Ant on a rubber rope the end of each second. Let formula_16 be the proportion of the distance from the starting-point to the target-point which the ant has covered at time "t". So formula_17. In the first second the ant travels distance formula_18, which is formula_19 of the distance from the starting-point to the target-point (which is formula_20 throughout the first second). When the rope stretches suddenly and instantaneously, formula_16 remains unchanged, because the ant moves along with the rubber where it is at that moment. So formula_22. In the next second the ant travels distance formula_18 again, which is formula_24 of the distance from