Can honey bees learn the removal of a stimulus as a conditioning cue?

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 843-854

  Abramson, Charles I ^a   Nolf, Sondra L ^a   Mixson, T Andrew ^a   Wells, Harrington ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HONEYBEE; ODOR; PARADIGM SHIFT;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; NEPTUNIA;

EID: 77957560828     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01796.x     Document Type: Article

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