Grueter, Christoph and Czaczkes, Tomer J. (2019) Communication in social insects and how it is shaped by individual experience. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 151. pp. 207-215. ISSN 0003-3472, 1095-8282
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Communication is the foundation of all social systems, and learning is perhaps the most important cognitive tool. But how do these two critical faculties interact? With social insects being some of the best learners of the invertebrate world, and indisputably the most communicative, we examine the role of learning and experience in social insect communication. Learning plays a major role for both senders and receivers. A sender's experience can modulate what information is available for communication, whether communication is effective and whether individuals are motivated to communicate. Signalling about a resource is often modulated relative to the value of that resource and relative to the value of sharing information about it. The receiver's experience and knowledge can affect which parts of a signal's information content it attends to, how this information is acted on and, indeed, whether it attends to communication at all. Ultimately, while innate responses form the basis of social insect communication, learning is often a critical modulator of communication processes. (C) 2019 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING; DIVISION-OF-LABOR; ANT LASIUS-NIGER; HONEY-BEES; PRIVATE INFORMATION; TRAIL PHEROMONES; GENE-EXPRESSION; WAGGLE DANCE; LATREILLE HYMENOPTERA; LEARNING STRATEGIES; communication; experience; foraging; learning; private information; resource value; signal quality; signal value; social information; social insect |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie > Zoologie/Evolutionsbiologie (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze) |
| Depositing User: | Petra Gürster |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2020 07:01 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Mar 2020 07:01 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/27090 |
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