Invertebrate Memory: Wide-Eyed Ants Retrieve Visual Snapshots

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Niven, Jeremy E ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANT; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SHORT SURVEY; VISION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846840780     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.01.018     Document Type: Short Survey

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