Differences in performance on a reversal learning test and division of labor in honey bee colonies

Animal Cognition

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 119-125

  Ben Shahar, Y ^a   Thompson, C K ^a   Hartz, S M ^a   Smith, B H ^b   Robinson, G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Proboscis extension reflex; Social insects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000110103     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710000068     Document Type: Article

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