Similarities between the activity of human brain and bee

Sometimes, when we actively remember something, our attention seems to systematically scan every data compartment in the brain, just like all honey bees are transformed from flowers. one to another. Beginning with that interesting hypothesis, British scientists decided to embark on the process of verifying whether the human brain remembers working like a bee seeking honey.

Normally, when looking for honey, the bees will find a garden full of flowers or a wide meadow then swoop down to each of the nectar flowers. If they cannot find the bile in this flower, they will fly to other clusters, continue to be diligent and dedicated to the work. And perhaps, in the journey to recollect memories, the memory of the human brain works similarly to the way the bees find honey.

To prove this, Dr. Thomas Hills of the University of Warwick (UK) and colleagues asked 141 students of Indiana University, Bloomington (USA) to list the names of all the animals they think out within 3 minutes. As a result, on average, each student tells the names of 37 animals, notably their arrangements are often divided by groups that share certain characteristics, such as pets or wild animals.

Now is the time for TS's research team. Hills conducted a verification of how students move from one data zone to another when they remember animal names that are similar to the way some animals move from one food to another.

First, Thomas Hills applied a mathematical formula to preliminarily classify the answers, then he coded a computer program to calculate the possibility that a student could name a certain species. , based on the names the students listed. If someone starts with 'cats' for example, they will likely continue to mention 'dogs' rather than 'zebras'. When the program encounters a pair of slippage words predicted, followed by a pair of words with higher pairing ability, it will understand this is a move from one subject to another - like the transition from indoor pets to animals living in the desert, for example.

After verifying with the new program, the students who participated in the response independently confirmed that the program has captured the steps in a fairly precise way. Comparing the analytical results of how students navigate memory with the way that optimal search models predict their answers, the team identifies: how to search for people's memory in the same way The bee on the field of wild flowers often does.

Return to the case in TS's experiment. Hills, obviously when remembered, most students 'jump' over the data compartments exactly as the optimal search models predict. And students who think in the same way as this model are the most telling people.

Besides, the program also found that the most successful students often skip a data compartment if they find it takes too much time to call out a new name, just like how an animal swallows away. through a food source if it can take advantage of that time in a wrong place.

These findings, according to Peter Pirolli, a graduate student at the Palo Alto Research Center (California, USA), who has explored the application of search theory to memory - is evidence of science. Strong learning for an idea is gradually gaining popularity: the human brain remembers working like a honey bee. These findings have been published online in the Journal of Psychological Review Psychology.