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  • Cognitive Ecology
  • Social Systems

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  • Individual learning variations impact collective task performance in social animals.
  • Understanding how cognitive differences emerge in collective dynamics is crucial.
  • Latent inhibition (LI) is a heritable learning behavior studied in honey bees.

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  • To investigate how individual differences in latent inhibition (LI) influence collective foraging in honey bee colonies.
  • To determine if distinct LI phenotypes interact to shape group decision-making.
  • To explore the role of social interactions in mediating cognitive effects on collective behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Artificially selected honey bees into high-LI (prefer novel stimuli) and low-LI (learn familiar/novel equally) phenotypes.
  • Assessed foraging preferences of colonies with varying ratios of high-LI and low-LI bees.
  • Analyzed the influence of high-LI bee recruitment behaviors on low-LI bee choices in mixed groups.

Main Results:

  • Colonies dominated by high-LI bees preferred familiar feeders.
  • Low-LI colonies showed no preference between familiar and novel feeders.
  • In mixed colonies, low-LI bees shifted preference to familiar feeders, influenced by high-LI bee recruitment dances.

Conclusions:

  • Cognitive variation within a social group, specifically latent inhibition (LI), significantly drives emergent collective foraging outcomes.
  • Social interactions, mediated by attention differences, play a key role in how individual cognitive abilities translate to group behavior.
  • This study provides empirical evidence for cognition-driven collective dynamics in social insects.