The learning efficiency of the ant Anoplolepis gracilipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) varies with temperature - Insectes Sociaux Insectes Sociaux - The yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes Smith, 1857) is a highly invasive species that poses serious threats to tropical and subtropical ecosystems. Its distribution is...

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Chan et al. used a Y-maze olfactory conditioning assay to show that yellow crazy ants learn odor–reward associations much more efficiently at warmer temperatures 🔥
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s000...

#SoicalInsects #InvasiveAnt #AssociativeLearning #Behavior

Discrimination of invisible spatial structures by pigeons Learning & Behavior - The study of animal cognition has hosted a long debate about the nature of mental representation. Specifically, whether spatial (map-like) or associative (node-like)...

New paper #psynomLB 'Discrimination of invisible spatial structures by pigeons' https://bit.ly/4nYlJqa by Cook & Cook

#Associativelearning #Patternrecognition #Acquisition #Spatiallearning

@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social @compcogsoc.bsky.social

Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human.

Unfortunately behind paywall, but in this piece I talked to Ben Crair (the journalist) about #associativelearning, #animalintelligence, and problems in #animalcognition research where lots of learning knowledge often is neglected:
www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/18/1... #learning

Super and deepened-extinction in human predictive learning and a comparison of associative models Learning & Behavior - Cue-exposure is a treatment (e.g. for addictions and phobias) that aims to extinguish conditioned responses to target cues. However, especially in the case of addiction,...

New original #paper in #PsynomLB Super and deepened-extinction in human predictive learning and a comparison of associative models https://bit.ly/4m2fYHa by O Brudan, H Eisenbarth & S Glautier @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

#AssociativeLearning #Extinction #Rescorla-Wagner #Pearce #Configural

Thought the Science Adv-paper on symbolic representation in crows showed that crows have evolved "recursive capabilities"?

Read Rey & Fagot's paper! Crow behavior probably emerged through associative learning

#cognition #associativelearning #languageevolution

link.springer.com/article/10.3...