From antenna to antenna: lateral shift of olfactory memory recall by honeybees.

Honeybees, Apis mellifera, readily learn to associate odours with sugar rewards and we show here that recall of the olfactory memory, as demonstrated by the bee extending its proboscis when presented with the trained odour, involves first the right and then the left antenna. At 1-2 hour after traini...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lesley J Rogers, Giorgio Vallortigara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2394662?pdf=render