Local-feature assembling in visual pattern recognition and generalization in honeybees

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6993, 2004, Pages 758-761

  Stach, Silke ^a,b   Benard, Julie ^a   Giurfa, Martin ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; CORRELATION METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COGNITIVE ABILITY; HONEYBEES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VISUALIZATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEES; COGNITION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 3042549933     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02594     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Spence K. The differential response in animals to stimuli varying within a single dimension. Psychol. Rev. 44, 430-444 (1937).
2. Shepard, R. N. Toward a universal law of generalization for psychological science. Science 237, 1317-1323 (1987).
3. Ghirlanda, S. & Enquist, M. A century of generalization. Anim. Behav. 66, 15-36 (2003).
4. Srinivasan, M. V. Pattern recognition in the honeybee: recent progress. J. Insect Physiol. 40, 183-194 (1994).
5. Ronacher, B. How do bees learn and recognize visual patterns? Biol. Cybern. 79, 477-485 (1998).
6. Giurfa, M. & Menzel, R. Insect visual perception: complex ability of a simple nervous system. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 7, 505-513 (1997).
7. Giurfa, M. Cognitive neuroethology: dissecting non-elemental learning in a honeybee brain. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 13, 726-735 (2003).
8. Horridge, G. A. Vision of the honeybee Apis mellifera for patterns with two pairs of equal orthogonal bars. J. Insect Physiol. A 42, 131-138 (1996).
9. Horridge, G. A. Vision of the honeybee Apis mellifera for patterns with one pair of equal orthogonal bars. J. Insect Physiol. A 43, 741-748 (1997).
10. von Frisch, K. The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees 566 (Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967).
11. Ronacher, B. Pattern recognition in honeybees: multidimensional scaling reveals a city-block metric. Vision Res. 32, 1837-1843 (1992).
12. Giurfa, M., Eichmann, B. & Menzel, R. Symmetry perception in an insect. Nature 382, 458-461 (1996).
13. Horridge, G. A. & Zhang, S. W. Pattern vision in honeybees (Apis mellifera): Flower-like patterns with no predominant orientation. J. Insect Physiol. 41, 681-688 (1995).
14. van Hateren, J. H., Srinivasan, M. V. & Wait, P. B. Pattern recognition in bees: orientation discrimination. J. Comp. Physiol. A167, 649-654 (1990).
15. Horridge, G. A. Pattern discrimination by the honeybee: disruption as a cue. J. Comp. Physiol. A 181, 267-277 (1997).
16. Horridge, G. A. The effect of complexity on the discrimination of oriented bars by the honeybee (Apis mellifera). J. Comp. Physiol. A 189, 703-714 (2003).
17. Maurer, D., Le Grand, R. & Mondloch, C. J. The many faces of configural processing. Trends Cogn. Sci. 6, 255-260 (2002).
18. Giurfa, M. et al. Pattern learning by honeybees: conditioning procedure and recognition strategy. Anim. Behav. 57, 315-324 (1999).
19. Srinivasan, M. V. & Lehrer, M. Spatial acuity of honeybee vision and its spectral properties. J. Comp. Physiol. A 162, 159-172 (1988).
20. Menzel, R. & Backhaus, W. in Vision and Visual Dysfunction. The Perception of Colour (ed. Gouras, P.) 262-288 (MacMillan, London, 1991).
21. Giger, A. D. & Srinivasan, M. V. Pattern recognition in honeybees: chromatic properties of orientation analyses. J. Comp. Physiol. A 178, 763-769 (1996).
22. Dill, M., Wolf, R. & Heisenberg, M. Visual pattern recognition in Drosophila involves retinotopic matching. Nature 365, 751-753 (1993).
23. Osorio, D. Temporal and spectral properties of sustaining cells in the medulla of the locust. J. Comp. Physiol. 161, 441-448 (1987).
24. James, A. C. & Osorio, D. Characterisation of columnar neurons and visual signal processing in the medulla of the locust optic lobe by system identification techniques. J. Comp. Physiol. A 178, 183-199 (1996).
25. Chen, L., Zhang, S. & Srinivasan, M. V. Global perception in small brains: topological pattern recognition in honeybees. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 6884-6889 (2003).
26. Biedermann, I. Recognition-by-components: A theory of human image understanding, Psychol. Rev. 94, 115-147 (1987).
27. Werner, C. W. & Rehkämper, G. Discrimination of multidimensional geometrical figures by chickens: categorization and pattern learning. Anim. Cogn. 2, 27-40 (1999).
28. Treisman, A. & Gelade, G. A feature-integration theory of attention. Cogn. Psychol. 2, 97-136 (1980).