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Early olfactory, but not gustatory processing, is affected by the selection of heritable cognitive phenotypes in honey bee.
Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology - 1 Jan 2021
Bennett Meghan M, Cook Chelsea N, Smith Brian H, Lei Hong
Abstract excerpt
Associative learning enables animals to predict rewards or punishments by their associations with predictive stimuli, while non-associative learning occurs without reinforcement. The latter includes latent inhibition (LI), whereby animals learn to ignore an inconsequential 'familiar' stimulus. Individual honey bees display heritable differences in expression of LI. We examined the behavioral and neuronal...
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