{"title":"Individual face recognition in wasps.","authors":"Elizabeth A Tibbetts","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.08.004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Paper wasp societies use behaviors like individual face recognition, configural face processing, social eavesdropping, and transitive inference to manage social relationships. Despite their evolutionary distance, wasps and vertebrates share similarities in their social recognition behavior, indicating that these behaviors can be implemented in miniature brains without a neocortex.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.08.004","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Paper wasp societies use behaviors like individual face recognition, configural face processing, social eavesdropping, and transitive inference to manage social relationships. Despite their evolutionary distance, wasps and vertebrates share similarities in their social recognition behavior, indicating that these behaviors can be implemented in miniature brains without a neocortex.
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Essential reading for those working directly in the cognitive sciences or in related specialist areas, Trends in Cognitive Sciences provides an instant overview of current thinking for scientists, students and teachers who want to keep up with the latest developments in the cognitive sciences. The journal brings together research in psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, computer science and neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences provides a platform for the interaction of these disciplines and the evolution of cognitive science as an independent field of study.