Neuroscience: Intelligence in the Honeybee Mushroom Body.
Intelligence, in most people's conception, involves combining pieces of evidence to reach non-obvious conclusions. A recent theoretical study shows that intelligence-like brain functions can emerge from simple neural circuits, in this case the honeybee mushroom body.
Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. Electronic address: sophie.caron@utah.edu.
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Department of Neuroscience, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. Electronic address: lfabbott@columbia.edu.
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