Places and patterns - a study of context learning in honeybees

被引:47
作者
Collett, TS
Fauria, K
Dale, K
Baron, J
机构
[1] UNIV TOULOUSE 3, CNRS, UMR 5550, LAB ETHOL & PSYCHOL ANIM, F-31062 TOULOUSE, FRANCE
[2] UNIV OXFORD, PHYSIOL LAB, OXFORD OX1 3PT, ENGLAND
来源
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY | 1997年 / 181卷 / 04期
关键词
honeybees; visual pattern learning; context learning; mazes; places;
D O I
10.1007/s003590050120
中图分类号
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
To investigate the priming of memories by contextual cues, bees were trained to negotiate two mazes in different places 25 m apart. In the first maze, bees flew leftwards when the inner wall of the maze was covered with 45 degrees stripes or rightwards when the inner wall was coloured yellow. In the second maze, bees flew rightwards on viewing 135 degrees diagonal stripes or leftwards on viewing blue. The trajectories evoked by 45 degrees or 135 degrees stripes were similar in both mazes. However, vertical stripes were treated like 45 degrees stripes in maze 1 and like 135 degrees stripes in maze 2. Contextual cues prime the response to stripes that are oriented in the training condition for that site so influencing responses to stripes in closely neighbouring orientations. What objects in a bee's surroundings determine its sense of place? Bees were trained to different visual patterns at two sites 40 m apart (A+ versus A- at site A, and E+ versus E- at site E). A+ was preferred over A- and E+ was preferred over E- at both training sites. A preference for A+ over E+ exhibited at site A dropped gradually with distance to suggest that spatial context includes both close and distant objects.
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