Prior associations affect bumblebees’ generalization performance in a tool-selection task

Summary: A small brain and short life allegedly limit cognitive abilities. Our view of invertebrate cognition may also be biased by the choice of experimental stimuli. Here, the stimuli (color) pairs used in the match-to-sample tasks affected the performance of buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrest...

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Main Authors: Pizza Ka Yee Chow, Topi K. Lehtonen, Ville Näreaho, Olli J. Loukola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-11-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222017382