Blue colour preference in honeybees distracts visual attention for learning closed shapes

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 199, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 817-827

  Morawetz, Linde ^a   Svoboda, Alexander ^a   Spaethe, Johannes ^b   Dyer, Adrian G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Blue contrast; Conditioning method; Shape discrimination; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEE; COLOR VISION; CONDITIONING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84884596760     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-013-0843-5     Document Type: Article

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