Associative visual learning, color discrimination, and chromatic adaptation in the harnessed honeybee Apis mellifera L.

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 192, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 691-700

  Hori, Sayaka ^a   Takeuchi, Hideaki ^a   Arikawa, Kentaro ^b   Kinoshita, Michiyo ^b   Ichikawa, Naoko ^c   Sasaki, Masami ^c   Kubo, Takeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLOR; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

EID: 33745684809     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-005-0091-4     Document Type: Article

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