Olfactory conditioning in the honey bee, Apis mellifera: Effects of odor intensity

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 107-117

  Bhagavan, Seetha ^a,b   Smith, Brian H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Electroantennogram; Honey bee; Olfaction; Proboscis extension conditioning; Sensory adaptation; Stimulus generalization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; TRAINING;

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 0031031261     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00357-5     Document Type: Article

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