Higher order visual input to the mushroom bodies in the bee, Bombus impatiens

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 443-458

  Paulk, Angelique C ^a   Gronenberg, Wulfila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bumblebee; Color processing; Honeybee; Insect brain; Motion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BUMBLEBEE; COLOR VISION; HONEYBEE; LEARNING; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEMORY; MOTION; MUSHROOM BODY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; RETINA IMAGE; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEES; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MOTION PERCEPTION; MUSHROOM BODIES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; OPTIC LOBE, NONMAMMALIAN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BOMBUS IMPATIENS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 49949103235     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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