High-Speed Videography Reveals How Honeybees Can Turn a Spatial Concept Learning Task Into a Simple Discrimination Task by Stereotyped Flight Movements and Sequential Inspection of Pattern Elements.

ABSTRACT: Honey bees display remarkable visual learning abilities, providing insights regarding visual information processing in a miniature brain. It was discovered that bees can solve a task that is generally viewed as spatial concept learning in primates, specifically the concept of "above" and "below." In these works, two pairs of visual stimuli were shown in the two arms of a Y-maze. Each arm displayed a "referent" shape (e.g., a cross, or a horizontal line) and a second geometric shape that appeared either above or below the referent. Bees learning the "concept of aboveness" had to choose the arm of the Y-maze in which a shape-any shape-occurred above the referent, while those learning the "concept of belowness" had to pick the arm in which there was an arbitrary item beneath the referent. Her

SUBMITTER: Guiraud M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6086205 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature