Electrical potentials indicate stimulus expectancy in the brains of ants and bees

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 313-327

  Ramón, Fidel ^a,b   Gronenberg, Wulfila ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Event related potentials; Evoked potentials; Insect

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; BEE; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAYFISH; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; INSECT SOCIETY; LEARNING; LIGHT; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEES; BRAIN; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EVOLUTION; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

APINAE; APOIDEA; ASTACOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 20044375574     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-005-3062-y     Document Type: Article

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