<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all, This event is happening tmrw from 12-1pm at EE conference room. The seminar is hosted by Professor Lazar. If you have any questions about the seminar, please reach out.</div><div><img src="cid:ii_m361pwdn1" alt="panellecture template.jpg" width="338" height="478"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 8:00 AM Xintian Tina Wang <<a href="mailto:xw2729@columbia.edu">xw2729@columbia.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>EE Seminar Series: </b></font><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ee.columbia.edu/events/ee-seminar-puzzle-solving-bumblebees-show-capacity-complex-learning-shaped-observer-and" target="_blank">Puzzle-solving bumblebees show a capacity for complex learning that is shaped by observer and demonstrator characteristics</a></b></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><b>November 7, 2024</b><div><b>12:00 PM - 1:00 PM<br>Location: EE Conference Room, 1300 Mudd Building<br><br>Alice D. Bridges<br>Centre for Cognition in Small Brains<br>School of Biosciences,<br>University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK</b><br><br><b>Abstract</b></div><div><br>The astonishing behavioral repertoires of social insects have historically been thought to be largely innate, constrained by limited brainpower and short lifespans. For example, the buff-tailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris is capable of learning even complex, non-natural behaviour both through individual trial and error and via social learning, and of sustaining local variations of behaviour as a socially-transmitted 'culture'. However, recent research suggests that the bumblebees can achieve a feat previously only seen in humans: they can learn a behavior from others that is so complex that they could not reasonably have replicated it in their own lifetime through individual trial and error learning. This ability is thought to underlie the expansive, superlatively cumulative culture seen in humans, and was thought to fundamentally set us apart from non-humans. The ability of naive bumblebees to learn this novel behaviour successfully from trained demonstrators differed between individuals, with both observer and demonstrator behaviour affecting its acquisition.<br><br>Bridges et al., Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone, Nature, 627, pages 572–578 (2024), <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__doi.org_10.1038_s41586-2D024-2D07126-2D4&d=DwMFaQ&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=SD-9ztpHDQVkXLFc0zdc9RZWqGhdQ2vAJZ0O73eMlt0&m=lQArdOsm2km6iTaK-6TaMC0eZgIoW3d_Le0RhrsCTyRqAKv7Z5D6kavIGciqdLTM&s=aGABrzYny-ArT6pdCzmGsN0zI0kSJafVmP396nT95pc&e=" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07126-4</a> <font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div><div><div id="m_-9129459304303199923gmail-_com_1">
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