Evidence for associative learning in newly emerged honey bees (Apis mellifera)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 249-255

  Behrends, Andreas ^a   Scheiner, Ricarda ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Learning; Olfactory conditioning; Reward; Sucrose responsiveness

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RANDOMIZATION; REWARD; SMELLING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEES; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REWARD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67349275731     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-008-0187-7     Document Type: Article

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