No evidence for olfactory blocking in honeybee classical conditioning

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1839-1854

  Gerber, Bertram ^a,b   Ullrich, Juliane ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Attention; Blocking effect; Cognition; Honeybee; Learning; Olfaction; Proboscis extension reflex

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032773498     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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