Aversive learning in honeybees revealed by the olfactory conditioning of the sting extension reflex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Vergoz, Vanina ^a   Roussel, Edith ^a   Sandoz, Jean Christophe ^a   Giurfa, Martin ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC AMINE; DOPAMINE; OCTOPAMINE;

APPETITE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEE STING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ELECTRIC SHOCK; HONEYBEE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BEE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HONEY; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REINFORCEMENT;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEES; BEHAVIOR; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSHOCK; HONEY; LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ODORS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 55849146284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000288     Document Type: Article

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