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Research Center on Animal Cognition

The Research Center on Animal Cognition (CRCA) is part of the Center for Integrative Biology in Toulouse (CBI Toulouse). The main goal of the CRCA is the multidisciplinary and comparative study of cognitive processing in different animal models, from invertebrates to vertebrates.
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See All newsHow digital traces promote cooperation or deception in human groups?
Today, digital traces are widely exploited by social networks and online commerce on the Internet. In this work we show that in a non-competitive context, the use of digital traces favors the emergence of cooperation in a group of individuals performing an information search task. On the contrary, when the context becomes competitive, their use favors individualistic behavior and the exchange of unreliable or misleading information between individuals.
The CRCA-CBI hosted the 31st french IUSSI congress!
From 28 to 30 August, the CRCA-CBI hosted the 31st conference of the French section of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects.
Social tolerance can be restored in aggressive spiders after molting.
In spiders, social isolation is responsible for the development of aggressive behaviour. In a study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, Emilie Mauduit and Raphael Jeanson show that social tolerance can be restored if spiders are exposed to siblings after moulting.