What does the honeybee see? And how do we know?  : A critique of scientific reason

Horridge, Adrian

doi:10.26530/oapen_459768

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“…Now that evidence has been accumulating that invertebrate animals also show voluntary behavior [72][73][74] and display highly complex behaviors that suggest cognitive processes including rule learning and concept/category formation [6,7,30], it is an urgent problem to develop an experimental system that will enable neurophysiological analysis of the cellular mechanisms underlying these processes at the level of identifiable neurons although criticisms do exist regarding the "cognitive" nature of invertebrate behavior [75,76].…”

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Discrimination learning with light stimuli in restrained American lobster

Tomina

Takahata

2012

Behavioural Brain Research

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Operant discrimination learning has been extensively utilized in the study on the perceptual ability of animals and their higher-order brain functions. We tested in this study whether American lobster Homarus americanus, which was previously found to possess ability of operant learning with claw gripping, could be trained to discriminate light stimuli of different intensities. For the current purpose, we newly developed a PC-controlled operant chamber that allowed the animal under a body-fixed condition to perform operant reward learning with claw gripping. Lobsters were first reinforced when they gripped the sensor bar upon presentation of a light cue. Then they were trained to grip the bar only when the light stimulus of a specific intensity was presented to obtain food reward while the stimuli of three different intensities including the reinforced one were presented in a random order. Finally, they were re-trained to grip the bar only when the light stimulus of another intensity that was not rewarded in the preceding training to obtain food while other intensities including the one that was rewarded previously were not rewarded any more. In these training procedures, the operant behavior occurred more frequently in response to the rewarded cue than to the non-rewarded one. The action latency for the reinforced stimuli showed a significant decrease in the course of training.These data demonstrate that lobsters can be trained with the light cues of different intensity as discriminative stimuli under a restrained condition that would allow application of electrophysiological techniques to the behaving subjects.-3-

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Discrimination learning with light stimuli in restrained American lobster

Tomina

Takahata

2012

Behavioural Brain Research

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“…This job has only just started and there are many questions to answer; for instance: how do ants compute FPMs? What is the alphabet of features available for scene recognition and navigation and how does scene recognition by ants compare with what is known about honeybee [50,56] and fruitfly [54,58] pattern vision? How much of a scene is used in controlling a given direction?…”

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“…In addition to such local features, honeybees and fruitflies learn global features of patterns extracted over large areas of the retina. Thus, they learn the vertical position of the centre of mass (CoM) of a pattern, and, after training with one pattern, will accept a differently shaped pattern as similar, so long as the vertical CoMs of the test and training patterns are in the same vertical position [54,56].…”

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Scene perception and the visual control of travel direction in navigating wood ants

Collett

Lent

Graham

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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This review reflects a few of Mike Land's many and varied contributions to visual science. In it, we show for wood ants, as Mike has done for a variety of animals, including readers of this piece, what can be learnt from a detailed analysis of an animal's visually guided eye, head or body movements. In the case of wood ants, close examination of their body movements, as they follow visually guided routes, is starting to reveal how they perceive and respond to their visual world and negotiate a path within it. We describe first some of the mechanisms that underlie the visual control of their paths, emphasizing that vision is not the ant's only sense. In the second part, we discuss how remembered local shape-dependent and global shape-independent features of a visual scene may interact in guiding the ant's path.

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“…Not surprisingly, honey bees are capable of discriminating a large variety of different odours (Guerrieri et al, 2005). For orientation and navigation, honey bees rely to a large part on their visual senses (Dyer, 1996;Horridge, 2009). The perception of gustatory stimuli is decisive for evaluating nectar sources by foragers (Seeley et al, 1991) and for the preparation of food by nurse bees (Winston, 1987).…”

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Standard methods for behavioural studies ofApis mellifera

Scheiner

Abramson

Brodschneider

et al. 2013

Journal of Apicultural Research

146

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SummaryIn this BEEBOOK paper we present a set of established methods for quantifying honey bee behaviour. We start with general methods for preparing bees for behavioural assays. Then we introduce assays for quantifying sensory responsiveness to gustatory, visual and olfactory stimuli. Presentation of more complex behaviours like appetitive and aversive learning under controlled laboratory conditions and learning paradigms under free-flying conditions will allow the reader to investigate a large range of cognitive skills in honey bees. Honey bees are very sensitive to changing temperatures. We therefore present experiments which aim at analysing honey bee locomotion in temperature gradients. The complex flight behaviour of honey bees can be investigated under controlled conditions in the laboratory or with sophisticated technologies like harmonic radar or RFID in the field. These methods will be explained in detail in different sections. Honey bees are model organisms in behavioural biology for their complex yet plastic division of labour. To observe the daily behaviour of individual bees in a colony, classical observation hives are very useful. The setting up and use of typical observation hives will be the focus of another section. The honey bee dance language has important characteristics of a real language and has been the focus of numerous studies. We here discuss the background of the honey bee dance language and describe how it can be studied. Finally, the mating of a honey bee queen with drones is

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What does the honeybee see? And how do we know? : A critique of scientific reason

Cited by 21 publications

References 48 publications

Discrimination learning with light stimuli in restrained American lobster

Discrimination learning with light stimuli in restrained American lobster

Scene perception and the visual control of travel direction in navigating wood ants

Standard methods for behavioural studies ofApis mellifera

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