learning
- Long-lasting generalization triggered by a single trial event in the invasive crayfish Procambarus clarkii
Summary: A single presentation of a new event is sufficient to elicit a long-lasting form of learning generalization from previous similar stimuli in Procambarus clarkii.
- Rewarding compounds identified from the medicinal plant Rhodiola rosea
Summary: Plant medicine can be useful, but also bears risks. Here, three substances with strikingly strong rewarding effects are identified from the medicinal plant Rhodiola rosea.
- Exploratory behaviour, memory and neurogenesis in the social Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis)
Summary: Damaraland mole-rat behaviour is modulated by dispersal and dispersal strategy. Non-dispersing mole-rats explore more cautiously; female dispersers approach the learning task differently from males, having a different dispersal strategy.
- Experience-dependent tuning of early olfactory processing in the adult honey bee, Apis mellifera
Summary: Experience acquired during adulthood changes the morphology, physiology and behavioral output of the olfactory system in the honey bee.
- Surpassing the subitizing threshold: appetitive–aversive conditioning improves discrimination of numerosities in honeybees
Highlighted Article: Appetitive–aversive differential conditioning enables honeybees to learn discrimination of quantities 1–10; however, classic appetitive conditioning does not allow bees to learn this same numerical task.
- Encoding lateralization of jump kinematics and eye use in a locust via bio-robotic artifacts
Summary: Encoding the jumping escape direction and surveillance orientation in young and adult Locusta migratoria as an adaptive consequence of prior exposure to directional-biased predator approaches generated by a biomimetic robot.
- Can honey bees discriminate between floral-fragrance isomers?
Summary: Discrimination of floral-fragrance isomers by bees is difficult, even under learning protocols that enhance discrimination; thus, isomers may not necessarily enhance plant odor diversity for pollinators.