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 a given time formula_36 is its speed relative to the rope, i.e. formula_18, plus the speed of the rope at the point where the ant is. The target-point moves with speed formula_38, so at time formula_39 it is at formula_40. Other points along the rope move with proportional speed, so at time formula_39 the point on the rope at formula_42 is moving with speed formula_43. So if we write the position of the ant at time formula_39 as formula_45, and the speed of the ant at time formula_39 as formula_47, we can write: This is a first order linear differential