Snapshots in ants? New interpretations of paradigmatic experiments

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1766-1770

  Wystrach, Antoine ^a   Mangan, Michael ^b   Philippides, Andrew ^a   Graham, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ant; Familiarity; Learning walks; Navigation; Snapshot; Visual memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FAMILIARITY; LEARNING WALKS; MEMORY; NAVIGATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SNAPSHOT; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANT; FAMILIARITY; LEARNING WALKS; NAVIGATION; SNAPSHOT; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 84877155432     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.082941     Document Type: Article

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