Memory span for heterospecific individuals' odors in an ant, Cataglyphis cursor

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 319-326

  Foubert, Emmeline ^a   Nowbahari, Elise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; HABITUATION; LONG TERM MEMORY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; SENSORY MEMORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MEMORY; ODOR;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MEMORY; ODORS;

EID: 58149166280     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.36.4.319     Document Type: Article

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