Facilitation of learning of a simultaneous discrimination between rotated patterns by bumblebees

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 234-256

  Perreault, M J ^a   Plowright, C M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bombus impatiens; Bumblebees; Discrimination; Encoding; Pattern recognition; Perceptual learning; Representation; Template matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 62549151279     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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