Learning at old age: a study on winter bees

Ageing is often accompanied by a decline in learning and memory abilities across the animal kingdom. Understanding age-related changes in cognitive abilities is therefore a major goal of current research. The honey bee is emerging as a novel model organism for age-related changes in brain function,...

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Main Authors: Andreas Behrends, Ricarda Scheiner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00015/full