Association between visual cues and time of day in an ant

Cammaerts, Marie-Claire; Cammaerts, Roger

doi:10.1007/s10164-022-00751-4

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“…The following step was to discover how these ants perceive the passing time. The results are partly illustrated in Figure 4, and detailed in Cammaerts & Cammaerts (2022f). The authors made five experiments on four colonies using either visual or olfactory cues (the conditional stimuli) and found that after conditioning acquisition and then removal of the cues, the ants firstly kept their conditioning for a few hours, secondly lost it over time according to a sigmoid curve (during 20 -24 hours), and thirdly brutally (from 20 -24 to 28 -32 hours after the cues removal) no longer valuably reacted to the cues (the conditional stimuli).…”

Section: Time Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…A graphical representation of the results allowed defining that the maximum time interval between the perceptions of two numbers for still adding them equals 7' 45''. This is illustrated in Figure 3, and detailed in Cammaerts & Cammaerts (2022e). The following step was to discover how these ants perceive the passing time.…”

Section: Time Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lower part: when increasing their activity, the ants underestimated the passing time (15 -20 hours perceived though equaling ± 33 hours). Details can be found in Cammaerts & Cammaerts (2022f).…”

Section: Figure 4 Ants' Time Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Summary of Newly Found Ants’ Cognitive Abilities, and Their Occurrence in Humans

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Cammaerts²

2023

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Authors studied the cognitive abilities of the ant Myrmica sabuleti Meinert 1861, and in addition to the separate publications of their findings, they also summarized them in until now three papers. Here, the authors summarize their eight last findings, and report similar abilities in humans as well as advices for acquiring and using them. The ants can associate visual cues, numbers of elements, and odors with the time periods of their occurrence, and do so taking into account the characteristics of the elements. Humans should do so for ameliorating their daily life. For adding two numbers, the ants must see them with a time gap not exceeding 8 minutes. The ants discriminate recent and previously perceived events, locating the recent but not the old ones on a ‘time line’. Humans must learn to evaluate the passing time, to have a ‘time line’. The ants’ time perception is underestimated when they are more active. This is true for humans, and must be considered while working, playing or doing nothing (e.g., elderly persons). The ants can navigate using a learned (memorized) sequence of odors. Humans must learn sequences of cues for finding their way. The ants discriminate even and odd numbers until the number 7. Humans are sensitive to numbers’ parity, and this should freely impact their choice. Shortly, the authors revealed four cognitive abilities in ants which should occur in humans, natively or acquired through experiences, at a more precise, complex and extended level, in order to provide them with an as comfortable as possible live.

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Section: Time Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Time Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%