Odorant intensity as a determinant for olfactory conditioning in honeybees: Roles in discrimination, overshadowing and memory consolidation

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 837-847

  Pelz, Corinna ^a   Gerber, Bertram ^a   Menzel, Randolf ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera carnica; honeybee; learning; mechanoreception; memory; olfaction; Pavlovian conditioning; salience; stimulus intensity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MECHANORECEPTOR; MEMORY; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEES; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MECHANORECEPTORS; MEMORY; ODORS; SMELL;

ANIMALIA; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA CARNICA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0031080454     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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