ArticleLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2019
Inhibitory learning of phototaxis by honeybees in a passive-avoidance task.
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- The Neural Signature of Visual Learning Under Restrictive Virtual-Reality Conditions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Wild non-eusocial bees learn a colour discrimination task in response to simulated predation events.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2021Article
- Conspecific and interspecific stimuli reduce initial performance in an aversive learning task in honey bees (Apis mellifera).PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
Honeybees are a standard model for the study of appetitive learning and memory. Yet, fewer attempts have been performed to characterize aversive learning and memory in this insect and uncover its molecular underpinnings. Here, we took advantage of the positive phototactic behavior of bees kept away from the hive in a dark environment and established a passive-avoidance task in which they had to suppress positive phototaxis. Bees placed in a two-compartment box learned to inhibit spontaneous attraction to a compartment illuminated with blue light by associating and entering into that chamber with shock delivery. Inhibitory learning resulted in an avoidance memory that could be retrieved 24 h after training and that was specific to the punished blue light. The memory was mainly operant but involved a Pavlovian component linking the blue light and the shock. Coupling conditioning with transcriptional analyses in key areas of the brain showed that inhibitory learning of phototaxis leads to an up-regulation of the dopaminergic receptor gene
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