Inhibitory conditioning in honeybees.
Honeybees were rewarded with sucrose solution for choosing AX(a grey target, X, labelled with a distinctive stimulus, A) rather than ABX (a grey target labelled both with A and with another distinctive stimulus, B)-AX+/ABX- training. Tests of independent groups made after such training showed a clear preference not only for AX over ABX, but also for ABX over BX, and for X over BX. These experiments, along with some earlier ones to which they bring a new perspective, provide persuasive evidence, previously lacking, of inhibitory conditioning in honeybees.
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Couvillon
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Bumanglag
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Bitterman
D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological