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Direct linkBenard, Julie; Giurfa, Martin – Learning & Memory, 2004
We asked whether honeybees, "Apis mellifera," could solve a transitive inference problem. Individual free-flying bees were conditioned with four overlapping premise pairs of five visual patterns in a multiple discrimination task (A+ vs. B-, B+ vs. C-, C+ vs. D-, D+ vs. E-, where + and - indicate sucrose reward or absence of it,…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Rewards, Inferences, Memory
