Honeybee (Apis mellifera) vision can discriminate between and recognise images of human faces

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 4709-4714

  Dyer, Adrian G ^a,b,d   Neumeyer, Christa ^a   Chittka, Lars ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Face recognition; Honeybee; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEES; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; HUMANS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 31044431694     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01929     Document Type: Article

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