Conceptual learning by miniature brains

A Avarguès-Weber, M Giurfa - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Concepts act as a cornerstone of human cognition. Humans and non-human primates learn
conceptual relationships such as 'same','different','larger than','better than', among others. In …

Peripheral taste detection in honey bees: What do taste receptors respond to?

L Bestea, A Réjaud, J Sandoz… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the neural principles governing taste perception in species that bear
economic importance or serve as research models for other sensory modalities constitutes a …

Comparative trapping efficiency to characterize bee abundance, diversity, and community composition in apple orchards

NK Joshi, T Leslie, EG Rajotte… - Annals of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Bees are important pollinators of numerous crops, and monitoring their abundance and
diversity in commercial agricultural ecosystems is of increasing importance due to pollinator …

Visual learning in a virtual reality environment upregulates immediate early gene expression in the mushroom bodies of honey bees

H Geng, G Lafon, A Avarguès-Weber, A Buatois… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Free-flying bees learn efficiently to solve numerous visual tasks. Yet, the neural
underpinnings of this capacity remain unexplored. We used a 3D virtual reality (VR) …

Wild bees respond differently to sampling traps with vanes of different colors and light reflectivity in a livestock pasture ecosystem

RS Acharya, JM Burke, T Leslie, K Loftin, NK Joshi - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Wild bees are important pollinators and monitoring their abundance and diversity is
necessary to develop conservation protocols. It is imperative to understand differences in …

[图书][B] The conceptual mind: New directions in the study of concepts

A Avargues-Weber, M Giurfa, J Plotnik, NS Clayton… - 2015 - books.google.com
New essays by leading philosophers and cognitive scientists that present recent findings
and theoretical developments in the study of concepts. The study of concepts has advanced …

Color of pan trap influences sampling of bees in livestock pasture ecosystem

RS Acharya, T Leslie, E Fitting, J Burke, K Loftin… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pollination is important for fertilization, setting fruits, seed development
and the continuation of the life cycle of plants that eventually provide food for humans …

Cognitive components of color vision in honey bees: how conditioning variables modulate color learning and discrimination

A Avarguès-Weber, M Giurfa - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2014 - Springer
Since the demonstration of color vision in honey bees 100 years ago by Karl von Frisch,
appetitive conditioning to color targets has been used as the principal way to access …

Colour vision in ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)

A Yilmaz, J Spaethe - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ants are ecologically one of the most important groups of insects and exhibit impressive
capabilities for visual learning and orientation. Studies on numerous ant species …

Motion cues from the background influence associative color learning of honey bees in a virtual-reality scenario

G Lafon, SR Howard, BH Paffhausen… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Honey bees exhibit remarkable visual learning capacities, which can be studied using
virtual reality (VR) landscapes in laboratory conditions. Existing VR environments for bees …