Categorizing Visual Information in Subpopulations of Honeybee Mushroom Body Output Neurons.

ABSTRACT: Multisensory integration plays a central role in perception, as all behaviors usually require the input of different sensory signals. For instance, for a foraging honeybee the association of a food source includes the combination of olfactory and visual cues to be categorized as a flower. Moreover, homing after successful foraging using celestial cues and the panoramic scenery may be dominated by visual cues. Hence, dependent on the context, one modality might be leading and influence the processing of other modalities. To unravel the complex neural mechanisms behind this process we studied honeybee mushroom body output neurons (MBON). MBONs represent the first processing level after olfactory-visual convergence in the honeybee brain. This was physiologically confirmed in our previous stud

SUBMITTER: Schmalz F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9092450 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature