NDLI: Behavioral and neural analysis of associative learning in the honeybee: a taste from the magic well

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Author	Giurfa, Martin
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Equipped with a mini brain smaller than one cubic millimeter and containing only 950,000 neurons, honeybees could be indeed considered as having rather limited cognitive abilities. However, bees display a rich and interesting behavioral repertoire, in which learning and memory play a fundamental role in the framework of foraging activities. We focus on the question of whether adaptive behavior in honeybees exceeds simple forms of learning and whether the neural mechanisms of complex learning can be unraveled by studying the honeybee brain. Besides elemental forms of learning, in which bees learn specific and univocal links between events in their environment, bees also master different forms of non-elemental learning, including categorization, contextual learning and rule abstraction, both in the visual and in the olfactory domain. Different protocols allow accessing the neural substrates of some of these learning forms and understanding how complex problem solving can be achieved by a relatively simple neural architecture. These results underline the enormous richness of experience-dependent behavior in honeybees, its high flexibility, and the fact that it is possible to formalize and characterize in controlled laboratory protocols basic and higher-order cognitive processing using an insect as a model.
Starting Page	801
Ending Page	824
Page Count	24
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03407594
Journal	Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Volume Number	193
Issue Number	8
e-ISSN	14321351
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2007-07-17
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Perception Cognition Learning Memory Honeybee Zoology Neurosciences Animal Physiology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Physiology Behavioral Neuroscience Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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