..., the honey bee Apis mellifera. We used appetitive conditioning of the proboscis extension response to evaluate how bees perceive the EI.EM mixture. In a first experiment, we measured perceptual similarity between this mixture and its components in a generalization protocol. In a second experiment, we...

... conditioning. This allows visual associative learning to be studied in fixed rather than free-moving ants. Classical conditioning Appetitive conditioning Visual cues Memory Formica rufa Learning and memory formation in insects has been studied extensively, most typically in foraging...

... declare no competing financial interests. 12 12 2013 27 3 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Olfactory learning Long-term memory Appetitive conditioning Disease vector Aedes aegypti A variety of processes, both ecological and physiological...

... and complementary olfactory appetitive conditioning paradigms that allow the assessment of learning in desert locusts ( Schistocerca gregaria ). A key advantage of both paradigms is that locusts are restrained during training, thus allowing precise control of the learning parameters. We described the opening...