Comparative analysis of learning in honeybees

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 123-141

  Bitterman, M E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONDITIONING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOLUTION; HONEYBEE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; REWARD; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

APIS MELLIFERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029881033     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03198961     Document Type: Article

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