Ants Learn Geometry and Features

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-66

  Wystrach, Antoine ^a   Beugnon, Guy ^a  

^a Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BRAIN; LEARNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58149163120     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.054     Document Type: Article

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