Colour generalization and choice behaviour of the honeybee Apis mellifera ligustica

The colour choice of free-flying honeybees Apis mellifera ligustica was tested on a food-source simulator with 12 non-rewarded and coloured feeders (blue, violet or yellow) after training to rewarded feeders marked with aluminium discs. Bees trained to the aluminium signal showed a preference for vi...

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Autor principal: Giurfa, Martín
Publicado: 1991
Materias:
colour preferences
Colour vision
generalization process
honeybee
Acceso en línea:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00221910_v37_n1_p41_Giurfa
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00221910_v37_n1_p41_Giurfa
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spelling paper:paper_00221910_v37_n1_p41_Giurfa2023-06-08T14:47:07Z Colour generalization and choice behaviour of the honeybee Apis mellifera ligustica Giurfa, Martín colour preferences Colour vision generalization process honeybee The colour choice of free-flying honeybees Apis mellifera ligustica was tested on a food-source simulator with 12 non-rewarded and coloured feeders (blue, violet or yellow) after training to rewarded feeders marked with aluminium discs. Bees trained to the aluminium signal showed a preference for violet followed by blue and finally by yellow. These results are interpreted using a model which allows a determination of the bee's perceptual distances between the stimuli used. The rank order obtained in colour-choice experiments can be related to generalization processes in which bees trained to the aluminium signal preferred the colour signal which is perceptually closest to the pretrained signal, even if innate colour preferences could not be discarded. Since bees generalize effectively from one visual cue to the other, it is to be expected that any pretraining would have a strong impact on the colour choice even if no obvious colour marks or "neutral" marks (aluminium discs) are used. © 1991. Fil:Giurfa, M. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 1991 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00221910_v37_n1_p41_Giurfa http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00221910_v37_n1_p41_Giurfa
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topic colour preferences
Colour vision
generalization process
honeybee
spellingShingle colour preferences
Colour vision
generalization process
honeybee
Giurfa, Martín
Colour generalization and choice behaviour of the honeybee Apis mellifera ligustica
topic_facet colour preferences
Colour vision
generalization process
honeybee
description The colour choice of free-flying honeybees Apis mellifera ligustica was tested on a food-source simulator with 12 non-rewarded and coloured feeders (blue, violet or yellow) after training to rewarded feeders marked with aluminium discs. Bees trained to the aluminium signal showed a preference for violet followed by blue and finally by yellow. These results are interpreted using a model which allows a determination of the bee's perceptual distances between the stimuli used. The rank order obtained in colour-choice experiments can be related to generalization processes in which bees trained to the aluminium signal preferred the colour signal which is perceptually closest to the pretrained signal, even if innate colour preferences could not be discarded. Since bees generalize effectively from one visual cue to the other, it is to be expected that any pretraining would have a strong impact on the colour choice even if no obvious colour marks or "neutral" marks (aluminium discs) are used. © 1991.
author Giurfa, Martín
author_facet Giurfa, Martín
author_sort Giurfa, Martín
title Colour generalization and choice behaviour of the honeybee Apis mellifera ligustica
title_short Colour generalization and choice behaviour of the honeybee Apis mellifera ligustica
title_full Colour generalization and choice behaviour of the honeybee Apis mellifera ligustica
title_fullStr Colour generalization and choice behaviour of the honeybee Apis mellifera ligustica
title_full_unstemmed Colour generalization and choice behaviour of the honeybee Apis mellifera ligustica
title_sort colour generalization and choice behaviour of the honeybee apis mellifera ligustica
publishDate 1991
url https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00221910_v37_n1_p41_Giurfa
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00221910_v37_n1_p41_Giurfa
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