What matters in the associative learning of visual cues in foraging parasitoid wasps: Colour or brightness?

Animal Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 535-543

  Desouhant, Emmanuel ^a,b   Navel, Simon ^a   Foubert, Emmeline ^a   Fischbein, Deborah ^c   Théry, Marc ^d   Bernstein, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c Inst Nac de Tecnol Agropecuaria   (Argentina)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Brightness contrast; Cognitive ecology; Colour contrast; Host foraging; Hymenoptera; Venturia canescens

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; PYRALIDAE; VENTURIA CANESCENS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR VISION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; WASP;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WASPS;

EID: 77954665726     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-009-0304-2     Document Type: Article

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