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Keynote by Prof. Lars Chittka — “The Mind of a Bee”
A fascinating look into the complex inner lives of bees — their perception, memory, emotions, and intelligence. Prof. Chittka reveals how these tiny creatures challenge our assumptions about consciousness and cognition across species. Recorded at the Cognitive Science Conference 2025.

Lars Chittka is the founder of the Research Centre for Psychology at Queen Mary, University of London. He has been an Editor of Biology’s leading open access journal PLoS Biology (IF=11.5) since 2004, and has also been on the Editorial Board of the venerable Proc Roy Soc Lond B (IF=5.4; 2010-2012) and the Quarterly Review of Biology (IF=7.7; 2004-2010); he is a member of the Faculty of 1000, and was an ERC Panel Chair (Consolidator Grants LS8, 2010-2013). Lars Chittka is a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and an ERC Advanced Grant. He is also an elected Fellow of the Linnean Society (FLS) the Royal Entomological Society (FRES) as well as the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB). He received the Lesley Goodman Award of the Royal Entomological Society in 2006, with Dr. T. Doering.


About This Title (The Mind of a Bee):

Most of us are aware of the hive mind — the collective intelligence that makes bees such an extraordinary social species. But how much do we really know about the individual intelligence of a bee?

In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka draws on decades of groundbreaking research, including his own pioneering studies, to reveal that bees possess remarkable cognitive abilities. They are profoundly smart, show distinct personalities, can recognize flowers and human faces, express basic emotions, count, use simple tools, solve problems, and even learn by observing others. Some evidence suggests they may even experience a form of consciousness.

Taking readers deep into the sensory world of bees, Chittka demonstrates how these tiny brains are marvels of efficiency, packing immense complexity into minute nervous systems. He explores how their evolution as foragers has shaped their sharp spatial memory and sophisticated perception, while also reflecting on the ethical challenges in studying creatures that think and feel.

Through this exploration, The Mind of a Bee unveils the inner life of one of nature’s most fascinating beings — showing that even the smallest creatures can hold immense cognitive worlds within them.

The link to the book:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebo...

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