Delayed symbolic matching in honeybees (Apis mellifera). |
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Authors: | Cooke, Maile H. Y. Couvillon, P. A. Bitterman, M. E. |
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Abstract: | In a recent experiment on short-term memory (P. A. Couvillon, T. P. Ferreira, & M. E. Bitterman, 2003), honeybees (Apis mellifera) learned to choose between 2 colors on the basis of immediately preceding experience with 1 of them. Some learned to choose the same color as the sample (perseveration or matching), others to choose the alternative color (alternation or nonmatching). Performance in the 2 problems was very much the same. In the present experiment, honeybees learned no less readily to choose between the 2 colors on the basis of sample stimuli that were different from the colors (symbolic matching). A simple associative interpretation of the results is proposed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Keywords: | honeybee short-term memory symbolic matching perseveration alternation color choice |
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