Cognition in an Insect Brain

Project Information

COGNIBRAINS

Grant agreement ID: 835032

DOI

10.3030/835032

EC signature date 6 November 2019

Start date 1 July 2020

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 870 839,00

EU contribution

€ 2 145 339,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Evidence of cognitive specialization in an insect: proficiency is maintained across elemental and higher-order visual learning but not between sensory modalities in honey bees

Author(s): Finke, Valerie; Baracchi, David; Giurfa, Martin; Scheiner, Ricarda; Avarguès-Weber, Aurore
Published in: Journal of Experimental Biology, Issue 224(24), 2021, Page(s) jeb242470, ISSN 0022-0949
Publisher: The Company of Biologists Ltd.
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.242470

Naïve and Experienced Honeybee Foragers Learn Normally Configured Flowers More Easily Than Non-configured or Highly Contrasted Flowers

Author(s): Howard, Scarlett R.; Dyer, Adrian G.; Garcia, Jair E.; Giurfa, Martin; Reser, David H.; Rosa, Marcello G. P.; AVergues-Weber, Aurore
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 9(744), 2021, Page(s) 662336, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.662336

The Neural Signature of Visual Learning Under Restrictive Virtual-Reality Conditions

Author(s): Lafon, Gregory; Geng, Haiyang; Avargues-Weber, Aurore; Buatois, Alexis; Massou, Isabelle; Giurfa, Martin
Published in: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Issue 16, 2022, Page(s) 84076, ISSN 1662-5153
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.846076

The cognitive side of communication in social insects

Author(s): Martin Giurfa
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue 9:S1364-6613(25)00227-X, 2025, Page(s) 1-3, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.08.005

A cognitive account of trace conditioning in insects

Author(s): Paoli, Marco; Macri, Catherine; Giurfa, Martin
Published in: Current Opinion in Insect Science, Issue 57, 2023, Page(s) 101034, ISSN 2214-5745
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2023.101034

Higher‐order discrimination learning by honey bees in a virtual environment

Author(s): Buatois, Alexis; Laroche, Lou; Lafon, Gregory; Avarguès‐Weber, Aurore; Giurfa, Martin
Published in: European Journal of Neurosciences, Issue 51(2), 2020, Page(s) 681-694, ISSN 0953-816X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14633

Analysis of fast calcium dynamics of honey bee olfactory coding

Author(s): Marco Paoli, Antoine Wystrach, Brice Ronsin, Martin Giurfa
Published in: eLife, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) RP93789, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.93789.3

Visual learning in a virtual reality environment upregulates immediate early gene expression in the mushroom bodies of honey bees

Author(s): Geng, Haiyang; Lafon, Gregory; Avargues-Weber, Aurore; Buatois, Alexis; Massou, Isabelle; Giurfa, Martin
Published in: Communications Biology, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) 130, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03075-8

Honey bees rely on associative stimulus strength after training on an olfactory transitive inference task

Author(s): Martin Giurfa, Silvia Lee, Catherine Macri
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 15, 2025, Page(s) 1529460, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1529460

Efficient visual learning by bumble bees in virtual-reality conditions: Size does not matter

Author(s): Lafon, Gregory; Paoli, Marco; Paffhausen, Benjamin H.; de Brito Sanchez, Gabriela; Lihoreau, Mathieu; Avarguès-Weber, Aurore & Giurfa, Martin
Published in: Insect Science, 2023, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 1672-9609
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.13181

Learning of sameness/difference relationships by honey bees: performance, strategies and ecological context

Author(s): Giurfa, Martin
Published in: Current Opinion in Behavioral Science, Issue 37, 2021, Page(s) 1-6, ISSN 2352-1546
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.05.008

Charles Henry Turner and the cognitive behavior of bees

Author(s): Giurfa, Martin; Giurfa de Brito, Anaclara; Giurfa de Brito, Tiziana; de Brito Sanchez, Gabriela
Published in: Apidologie, Issue 52, 2021, Page(s) 684–695, ISSN 0044-8435
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13592-021-00855-9

Motion cues from the background influence associative color learning of honey bees in a virtual-reality scenario

Author(s): Lafon, Gregory; Howard, Scarlett R; Paffhausen, Benjamin H ; Avarguès-Weber, Aurore; Giurfa, Martin
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11, 2021, Page(s) 21127, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-00630-x

Aversive learning reduces aversive-reinforcer sensitivity in honey bees

Author(s): Yuan Lai, Stevanus Rio Tedjakumala, Luigi Baciadonna, Catherine Macri, Isabelle Lafon, Martin Giurfa
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, Page(s) 6964, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-88267-y

An insect brain organizes numbers on a left-to-right mental number line

Author(s): Giurfa, Martin; Marcout, Claire; Hilpert; Peter, Rugani; Rosa; Thevenot, Catherine
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Issue 119(44), 2022, Page(s) e2203584119, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2203584119

A Comprehensive Characterization of Opsin Distribution Across the Visual System in the Three Castes of the Honey Bee

Author(s): Alexandre Durand, Sarah Larnaudie, Dorian Champelovier, Brice Ronsin, Isabelle Lafon, Martin Giurfa
Published in: iScience, 2025, Page(s) 113105, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113105