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Honeybees link sights to smells
It is common for a smell or a sound to trigger a vivid recollection of an associated event in the past, even if it involves a different sensory modality and the episode occurred a long time ago1,2. The human brai...
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Prior experience enhances pattern discrimination in insect vision
IT is well known that prior knowledge or experience aids us tremendously in uncovering objects that are poorly visible, partially hidden or camouflaged1–3. Is such enhancement in performance unique to higher anim...
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Is pattern vision in insects mediated by 'cortical' processing?
IT is known that bees, like humans, can learn the orientation of a striped pattern, and recognize this orientation in other simple patterns that they have never previously encountered1,2. How is orientation analy...
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Motion cues provide the bee's visual world with a third dimension
To extract the third dimension from a two-dimensional retinal image most insects, including bees, cannot rely on mechanisms common in vertebrates such as accommodation, binocular convergence or stereoscopic v...