Long Term Effects of Aversive Reinforcement on Colour Discrimination Learning in Free-Flying Bumblebees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Rodríguez Gironés, Miguel A ^a   Trillo, Alejandro ^a   Corcobado, Guadalupe ^a,b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUININE; SUCROSE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSION; BUMBLEBEE; COGNITION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FLOWER; FORAGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FLOWERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84881486390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071551     Document Type: Article

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