Maze navigation in honeybees: learning path regularity.

Zhang, Shao Wu; Mizutani, Akiko; Srinivasan, Mandyam V

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Maze navigation in honeybees: learning path regularity.

Date

2000

Authors

Zhang, Shao Wu

Mizutani, Akiko

Srinivasan, Mandyam V

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Abstract

We investigated the ability of honeybees to learn mazes of four types: constant-turn mazes, in which the appropriate turn is always in the same direction in each decision chamber; zig-zag mazes, in which the appropriate turn is alternately left and right