ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2019
Cross-modal transfer in visual and nonvisual cues in bumblebees.
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- The behavioural responses of bumblebeesRoyal Society open science · 2024Article
- Stimulus intensity and temporal configuration interact during bimodal learning and memory in honey bees.PloS one · 2024Article
- Neuroplasticity enables bio-cultural feedback in Paleolithic stone-tool making.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The search for invertebrate consciousness.Nous (Detroit, Mich.) · 2022Article
- Bumblebees can detect floral humidity.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Floral infrared emissivity estimates using simple tools.Plant methods · 2021Article
- Phylogenetic signal in floral temperature patterns.BMC research notes · 2021Article
- Floral temperature patterns can function as floral guides.Arthropod-plant interactions · 2020Article
- Floral Humidity in Flowering Plants: A Preliminary Survey.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Article
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Abstract
Bumblebees Bombus terrestris are good at learning to distinguish between patterned flowers. They can differentiate between flowers that differ only in their patterning of scent, surface texture, temperature, or electrostatic charge, in addition to visual patterns. As recently shown, bumblebees trained to discriminate between nonvisual scent patterns can transfer this learning to visually patterned flowers that show similar spatial patterning to the learnt scent patterns. Bumblebees can, therefore, transfer learnt patterns between different sensory modalities, without needing to relearn them. We used differential conditioning techniques to explore whether cross-modal transfer of learnt patterns also occurred between visual and temperature patterns. Bumblebees that successfully learnt to distinguish rewarding and unrewarding temperature patterns did not show any preferences for the corresponding unlearnt visual pattern. Similarly, bumblebees that learnt visual patterns did not transfer these to temperature patterns, suggesting that they are unable to transfer learning of temperature and visual patterns. We discuss how cross-modality pattern learning may be limited to modalities that have potentially strong neurological links, such as the previously demonstrated transfer between scent and visual patterns.
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