Different Roles for Honey Bee Mushroom Bodies and Central Complex in Visual Learning of Colored Lights in an Aversive Conditioning Assay

The honey bee is an excellent visual learner, but we know little about how and why it performs so well, or how visual information is learned by the bee brain. Here we examined the different roles of two key integrative regions of the brain in visual learning: the mushroom bodies and the central comp...

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Main Authors: Jenny A. Plath, Brian V. Entler, Nicholas H. Kirkerud, Ulrike Schlegel, C. Giovanni Galizia, Andrew B. Barron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00098/full