Pattern learning by honeybees: Conditioning procedure and recognition strategy

In recognizing a pattern, honeybees, Apis mellifera, may focus either on its ventral frontal part, or on the whole frontal image. We asked whether the conditioning procedure used to train the bees to a pattern determines the recognition strategy employed. Bees were trained with the same patterns pre...

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Autores principales: Giurfa, Martín, Mizyrycki, Cynthia L.
Publicado: 1999
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spelling paper:paper_00033472_v57_n2_p315_Giurfa2023-06-08T14:24:18Z Pattern learning by honeybees: Conditioning procedure and recognition strategy Giurfa, Martín Mizyrycki, Cynthia L. learning recognition In recognizing a pattern, honeybees, Apis mellifera, may focus either on its ventral frontal part, or on the whole frontal image. We asked whether the conditioning procedure used to train the bees to a pattern determines the recognition strategy employed. Bees were trained with the same patterns presented vertically on the back walls of a Y maze. Conditioning was either absolute, that is, bees should learn to choose a rewarded pattern when there is no alternative, or differential, that is, bees should learn to choose a rewarded pattern that is paired with a different, nonrewarded one. Bees used different pattern recognition strategies depending on the conditioning procedure: absolute conditioning restricted recognition to the lower half whilst differential conditioning extended it to the whole pattern. Bees trained with absolute conditioning saw and learned the features of the upper part of the trained patterns, but assigned more weight to the lower part. Bees trained with differential conditioning learned not only the features of the reinforced stimulus in an excitatory way, but also those of the nonreinforced one in an inhibitory way. Thus, conditioning tasks that involve not only excitatory acquisition of the conditioned stimulus per se, but also discrimination of nonreinforced stimuli, result in an increase in the visual field assigned to the recognition task. Conditioning tasks that involve only excitatory acquisition of the rewarded stimulus result in a higher weighting of the lower pattern half and thus in a more reduced field assigned to the recognition task. This difference may reflect that existing between a conditioned and an incidental behavioural modification. Fil:Giurfa, M. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Mizyrycki, C. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 1999 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00033472_v57_n2_p315_Giurfa http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00033472_v57_n2_p315_Giurfa
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topic learning
recognition
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recognition
Giurfa, Martín
Mizyrycki, Cynthia L.
Pattern learning by honeybees: Conditioning procedure and recognition strategy
topic_facet learning
recognition
description In recognizing a pattern, honeybees, Apis mellifera, may focus either on its ventral frontal part, or on the whole frontal image. We asked whether the conditioning procedure used to train the bees to a pattern determines the recognition strategy employed. Bees were trained with the same patterns presented vertically on the back walls of a Y maze. Conditioning was either absolute, that is, bees should learn to choose a rewarded pattern when there is no alternative, or differential, that is, bees should learn to choose a rewarded pattern that is paired with a different, nonrewarded one. Bees used different pattern recognition strategies depending on the conditioning procedure: absolute conditioning restricted recognition to the lower half whilst differential conditioning extended it to the whole pattern. Bees trained with absolute conditioning saw and learned the features of the upper part of the trained patterns, but assigned more weight to the lower part. Bees trained with differential conditioning learned not only the features of the reinforced stimulus in an excitatory way, but also those of the nonreinforced one in an inhibitory way. Thus, conditioning tasks that involve not only excitatory acquisition of the conditioned stimulus per se, but also discrimination of nonreinforced stimuli, result in an increase in the visual field assigned to the recognition task. Conditioning tasks that involve only excitatory acquisition of the rewarded stimulus result in a higher weighting of the lower pattern half and thus in a more reduced field assigned to the recognition task. This difference may reflect that existing between a conditioned and an incidental behavioural modification.
author Giurfa, Martín
Mizyrycki, Cynthia L.
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title Pattern learning by honeybees: Conditioning procedure and recognition strategy
title_short Pattern learning by honeybees: Conditioning procedure and recognition strategy
title_full Pattern learning by honeybees: Conditioning procedure and recognition strategy
title_fullStr Pattern learning by honeybees: Conditioning procedure and recognition strategy
title_full_unstemmed Pattern learning by honeybees: Conditioning procedure and recognition strategy
title_sort pattern learning by honeybees: conditioning procedure and recognition strategy
publishDate 1999
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