Honey bees respond to multimodal stimuli following the principle of inverse effectiveness.

ABSTRACT: Multisensory integration is assumed to entail benefits for receivers across multiple ecological contexts. However, signal integration effectiveness is constrained by features of the spatiotemporal and intensity domains. How sensory modalities are integrated during tasks facilitated by learning and memory, such as pollination, remains unsolved. Honey bees use olfactory and visual cues during foraging, making them a good model to study the use of multimodal signals. Here, we examined the effect of stimulus intensity on both learning and memory performance of bees trained using unimodal or bimodal stimuli. We measured the performance and the latency response across planned discrete levels of stimulus intensity. We employed the conditioning of the proboscis extension response protocol in honey

SUBMITTER: Gil-Guevara O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9206449 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature