Grouping of visual objects by honeybees

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 3289-3298

  Zhang, Shaowu ^a   Srinivasan, Mandyam V ^a   Zhu, Hong ^a   Wong, Jason ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Categorization; Cue; Grouping; Honeybee; Learning; Matching to sample; Memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEES; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; COLUMBA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 5344236817     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01155     Document Type: Article

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