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Sense Of Number in Invertebrate Cognition
We are experimenting a novel cognitive revolution with the accumulation of evidence on the unexpected intelligence of key invertebrate species. Indeed, abstraction faculties, emotion-like behaviours, social imitation, or tool use,... We are experimenting a novel cognitive revolution with the accumulation of evidence on the unexpected intelligence of key invertebrate species. Indeed, abstraction faculties, emotion-like behaviours, social imitation, or tool use, among other capacities, were long considered as the prerogative of large-brained vertebrates but now proven to be accessible to Invertebrates although to a limited extent. With this project, we wish to pursue this dynamic by offering an invertebrate perspective on the evolution of numerical cognition. In addition, our evolutionary distance with Invertebrate offers the best opportunity to compare numerical systems that evolved independently. Numerical cognition is indeed an ideal framework to explore the limit of what an invertebrate brain can perform with a comparative perspective thanks to historically well-defined and testable levels of complexity in processing quantities. Building from the established evidence of the impressive honeybees’ numerical skills and cephalopods’ general cognition, we propose to explore the limit of the cognitive levels accessible to Invertebrates by testing the possibility for bees and octopus to possess an abstract representation of numbers: are they capable of a symbolic and cross-modal representation of quantities? The proposed research program will thus offer timely decisive elements for a better understanding on the physiological and ecological constraints for numerical cognitive faculties to emerge. ver más
31/12/2026
UNICAEN
275K€
Perfil tecnológico estimado
Duración del proyecto: 43 meses Fecha Inicio: 2023-05-05
Fecha Fin: 2026-12-31

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo HORIZON EUROPE notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2023-05-05
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01-01: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022
Cerrada hace 2 años
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 275K€
Líder del proyecto
UNIVERSITE DE CAEN NORMANDIE No se ha especificado una descripción o un objeto social para esta compañía.
Perfil tecnológico TRL 4-5