Yonghe Zhou

I am a PhD student studying animal behaviour, and my broad research interest is to explore bumblebees' cognitive abilities through behavioural experiments. Currently, my project is about effort-based decision-making in bumblebees, investigating how bees value their effort.

Experience
2020-present PhD student at Queen Mary, University of London, UK
2019-2020 Research assistant at Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
2015-2019 BSc at Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Publications
1. Solvi, C., Zhou, Y., Feng, Y., Lu, Y., Roper, M., Sun, L., Reid, R. J., Chittka, L., Barron, A. B., & Peng, F. (2022). Bumblebees retrieve only the ordinal ranking of foraging options when comparing memories obtained in distinct settings. eLife, 11, e78525. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78525
2. Zhou, Y., Sun, L., Peng, X., Solvi, C., & Peng, F. (2020). Chromatic, achromatic and bimodal negative patterning discrimination by free-flying bumble bees. Animal Behaviour, 169, 93-101. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.09.009