Prototypical components of honeybee homing flight behavior depend on the visual appearance of objects surrounding the goal

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JANUARY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Braun, Elke ^a   Dittmar, Laura ^a   Boeddeker, Norbert ^a   Egelhaaf, Martin ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification of behavior; Honeybee local navigation; Prototypical movements

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FLIGHT; LUMINANCE; MOTIVATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC FLOW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 84856953890     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00001     Document Type: Article

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