Visual accelerated and olfactory decelerated responses during multimodal learning in honeybees.

ABSTRACT: To obtain accurate information about the outside world and to make appropriate decisions, animals often combine information from different sensory pathways to form a comprehensive representation of their environment. This process of multimodal integration is poorly understood, but it is common view that the single elements of a multimodal stimulus influence each other's perception by enhancing or suppressing their neural representation. The neuronal level of interference might be manifold, for instance, an enhancement might increase, whereas suppression might decrease behavioural response times. In order to investigate this in an insect behavioural model, the Western honeybee, we trained individual bees to associate a sugar reward with an odour, a light, or a combined olfactory-visual stim

SUBMITTER: Strube-Bloss M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10624174 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature