...Amanda Rodrigues Vieira; Nayara Salles; Marco Borges; Theo Mota ABSTRACT For more than a century, visual learning and memory have been studied in the honeybee Apis mellifera using operant appetitive conditioning. Although honeybees show impressive visual learning capacities in this well-established...

... navigation Pivoting parallax Visual learning Saccades Active vision Motion parallax Bees and wasps leaving their nest for the first time are able to relocate it on their return ( Capaldi and Dyer, 1999 ; Tinbergen, 1932 ). They acquire the necessary visual information during elaborate flight...

... 4749, Christchurch, New Zealand 1 11 2004 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2005 2005 bumblebees visual learning sequential priming contextual learning sequence learning Honeybees and bumblebees will learn to treat the same visual or olfactory target in different ways...

... with Hebbian synapses, in which local and contextual cues were bound together into a configural unit. * e-mail: t.s.collett@sussex.ac.uk 23 1 2002 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 2002 bumblebee Bombus terrestris visual learning context interference Animals...

... centred on the goal. This procedure may help insects to pick out those objects close to the goal that are best suited for guiding later returns. ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1996 Hymenoptera landmarks dead reckoning navigation visual learning This brief review emphasises...