Heritable Cognitive Phenotypes Influence Appetitive Learning but not Extinction in Honey Bees.

ABSTRACT: Learning and attention allow animals to better navigate complex environments. While foraging, honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) learn several aspects of their foraging environment, such as color and odor of flowers, which likely begins to happen before they evaluate the quality of the food. If bees begin to evaluate quality before they taste food, and then learn the food is depleted, this may create a conflict in what the bee learns and remembers. Individual honey bees differ in their sensitivity to information, thus creating variation in how they learn or do not learn certain environmental stimuli. For example, foraging honey bees exhibit differences in latent inhibition (LI), a learning process through which regular encounter with a stimulus without a consequence such as food can lat

SUBMITTER: Sezen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8423107 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature