Preprints
Procenko, O., Nityananda, V. (2025). Acute stress modulates early visual perception and decision-making speed in bees without compromising accuracy. bioRxiv, 2025-07. preregistration preprint
Robert T, Callendret M, Sowels C, Nityananda V (2025). Testing bottom-up cuing effects on target detection and discrimination in bumblebees. bioRxiv (2025): 2025-04. preregistration preprint
Publications
Read, JC, Nityananda, V. Revised models still do not show evidence for motivational trade-offs modulating nociception in bees. (in press) pdf
Read, JC, Nityananda, V. (2026). Motivational trade-offs as evidence for sentience in bees: a critique. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347225003161. preprint pdf data
Muth, F, Fischer, E. K., Nityananda, V. (2025). Bumblebees as a powerful model for studying cognitive ecology. https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(25)00314-6. pdf
Robert T, Yi Ting T, Ganot D, Loh YJ, Nityananda V (2025). Prior cueing affects the saccadic response to targets in the praying mantis Sphodromantis lineola. https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/228/11/jeb249296/368252 preprint pdf data
Procenko O, Read J, Nityananda, V. (2024). Physically stressed bees expect less reward in an active choice judgement bias test. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2024.0512.
Nityananda V. (2024) Social learning and culture in bees: Simple mechanisms, complex outcomes. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-024-03432-z
Robert T, Tarapata K, Nityananda V. (2024) Learning modifies attention during bumblebee visual search. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-024-03432-z
Patel SS, Read JC, Nityananda V, Szczecinski NS. (2022) Robotic Platform for Testing a Simple Stereopsis Network. In Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems 2022 Jul 19 (pp. 195-198). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-20470-8_20 pdf
O’Keeffe J, Yap SH, Llamas-Cornejo I, Nityananda V, Read JCA. (2022) A computational model of stereoscopic prey capture in praying mantises.
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009666
Nityananda V, Balakrishnan R. (2021) Synchrony of complex signals in an acoustically communicating katydid.
Bouwer FL, Nityananda V, Rouse AA, ten Cate C. (2021) Rhythmic abilities in humans and non-human animals: a review and recommendations from a methodological perspective.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0335
Greenfield MD, Aihara I, Amichay G, Anichini M, Nityananda V. (2021) Rhythm interaction in animal groups – selective attention in communication networks.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0338
Henry MJ, Cook PF, de Reus K, Nityananda V, Rouse AA, Kotz SA. (2021) An ecological approach to measuring synchronization abilities across the animal kingdom.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0336
Nityananda V, Chittka L. (2021) Different effects of reward value and saliency during bumblebee visual search for multiple rewarding targets.
Nityananda V. (2020) Insect Neurobiology: Divergent Neural Computations in Predatory Insects.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982219316689
Nityananda V, O’Keefe J, Umeton D, Simmons A, Read JCA. (2019) Second-order cues to figure motion enable object detection during prey capture by praying mantises.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912310116
Nityananda V, Joubier C, Tan J, Tarawneh G, Read JCA. (2019) Motion-in-depth perception and prey capture in the praying mantis Sphodromantis lineola.
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/early/2019/05/03/jeb.198614
Tarawneh G, Jones L, Nityananda V, Rosner R, Rind C, Read JCA. Apparent Motion Perception in the Praying Mantis: Psychophysics and Modelling. Vision 2018, 2(3), 32.
Tarawneh G, Nityananda V, Rosner R, Errington S, Herbert W, Arranz-Paraiso S, Busby N, Tamping J, Read J, Serrano-Pedraza I. (2018) Contrast thresholds reveal different visual masking functions in humans and praying mantises. http://bio.biologists.org/content/7/4/bio029439
Nityananda V, Tarawneh G, Henriksen S, Umeton D, Simmons A, Read J. (2018) A novel form of stereo vision in the praying mantis. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30014-9
Nityananda V, Read JCA. (2017) Stereopsis in animals: evolution, function and mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Biology
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/220/14/2502
Tarawneh G, Nityananda V, Rosner R, Errington S, Herbert W, Cumming BG, Read JCA, Serrano-Pedraza I. (2017) Invisible noise obscures visible signal in insect motion detection. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-03732-7
Nityananda V, Tarawneh G, Errington S, Serrano-Pedraza I, Read J. (2017) The optomotor response of the praying mantis is driven predominantly by the central visual field.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-016-1139-3
Nityananda V. (2016) Attention-like processes in insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological sciences
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2016.1986
Nityananda V, Bissianna G, Tarawneh G, Read J. Small or far away? (2016) Size and distance perception in the praying mantis. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2015.0262
Nityananda V, Tarawneh G, Rosner R, Nicolas J, Crichton S, Read J. (2016) Insect stereopsis demonstrated using a 3D insect cinema. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep18718
Nityananda V, Chittka L. (2015) Modality-specific attention in foraging bumblebees.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.150324
Nityananda V, Tarawneh G, Jones L, Busby N, Herbert W, Davies R, Read JCA. (2015) The contrast sensitivity function of the praying mantis Sphodromantis lineola. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00359-015-1008-5
Nityananda V, Skorupski P, Chittka L. (2014) Can bees see at a glance?
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/217/11/1933
Lamba S, Nityananda V. (2014) Self-Deceived Individuals Are Better at Deceiving Others. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0104562
Nityananda V, Pattrick JG. (2013) Bumblebee visual search for multiple learned target types.
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/22/4154
Nityananda V. (2013) Making Sense of the World. (Review of Sensory Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution by Martin Stevens. Oxford University Press (2013), 264 pages. ISBN: 978-0-199-60178-3).
https://akademiai.com/doi/abs/10.1556/JEP.11.2013.2.4
Nityananda V, Bee MA. (2012) Spatial release from masking in a free-field source identification task by gray treefrogs.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378595512000044?via%3Dihub
Nityananda V, Bee MA. (2011) Finding your mate at a cocktail party: frequency separation promotes auditory stream segregation of concurrent voices in multi-species frog choruses. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0021191
Nityananda V, Balakrishnan R. (2009) Modeling the role of competition and cooperation in the evolution of katydid acoustic synchrony. https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/20/3/484/184849
Nityananda V, Balakrishnan R. (2008) Leaders and followers in katydid choruses in the field: call intensity, spacing and consistency. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000334720800208X
Nityananda V, Stradner J, Roemer H, Balakrishnan R. (2007) Selective attention in a synchronising bushcricket: physiology, behaviour and ecology. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-007-0251-9
Nityananda V, Balakrishnan R. (2007) Synchrony during acoustic interactions in the bushcricket Mecopoda ‘Chirper’ (Tettigoniidae:Orthoptera) is generated by a combination of chirp-by-chirp resetting and change in intrinsic chirp rate.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-006-0170-1
Nityananda V, Balakrishnan R. (2006) A diversity of songs among morphologically indistinguishable katydids of the Genus Mecopoda (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from Southern India. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09524622.2006.9753552
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