Sensorimotor sequence learning in the ant Gigantiops destructor

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1693-1701

  Macquart, David ^a   Latil, Gérard ^a   Beugnon, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

ants; Gigantiops destructor; maze learning; motor learning; sequence learning

Indexed keywords

ANT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MEMORY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SENSORY SYSTEM; VISUAL CUE;

APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; GIGANTIOPS DESTRUCTOR;

EID: 42049084397     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.10.023     Document Type: Article

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