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Visual associative learning in restrained honey bees with intact antennae.
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- Multimodal integration and stimulus categorization in putative mushroom body output neurons of the honeybee.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Transfer of Visual Learning Between a Virtual and a Real Environment in Honey Bees: The Role of Active Vision.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- The Olfactory Proboscis Extension Response in the Honey Bee: A Laboratory Exercise in Classical Conditioning.Journal of undergraduate neuroscience education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience · 2018Article
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- Associative visual learning by tethered bees in a controlled visual environment.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Different Roles for Honey Bee Mushroom Bodies and Central Complex in Visual Learning of Colored Lights in an Aversive Conditioning Assay.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
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- Motion cues improve the performance of harnessed bees in a colour learning task.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015Article
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- Cognitive components of color vision in honey bees: how conditioning variables modulate color learning and discrimination.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2014Review
- Multisensory integration of colors and scents: insights from bees and flowers.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2014Review
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Abstract
A restrained honey bee can be trained to extend its proboscis in response to the pairing of an odor with a sucrose reward, a form of olfactory associative learning referred to as the proboscis extension response (PER). Although the ability of flying honey bees to respond to visual cues is well-established, associative visual learning in restrained honey bees has been challenging to demonstrate. Those few groups that have documented vision-based PER have reported that removing the antennae prior to training is a prerequisite for learning. Here we report, for a simple visual learning task, the first successful performance by restrained honey bees with intact antennae. Honey bee foragers were trained on a differential visual association task by pairing the presentation of a blue light with a sucrose reward and leaving the presentation of a green light unrewarded. A negative correlation was found between age of foragers and their performance in the visual PER task. Using the adaptations to the traditional PER task outlined here, future studies can exploit pharmacological and physiological techniques to explore the neural circuit basis of visual learning in the honey bee.
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