The behavioral relevance of landmark texture for honeybee homing

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APRIL, 2011, Pages

  Dittmar, Laura ^a   Egelhaaf, Martin ^a   Stürzl, Wolfgang ^a   Boeddeker, Norbert ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homing; Honeybee; Landmark navigation; Pattern discrimination; Snapshot matching; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLIGHT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; LANDMARK TEXTURE; NAVIGATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 84855231310     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00020     Document Type: Article

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