Use of idiothetic information for left/right turning memory by the ant Formica pratensis
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Tarih
2005
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Springer
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Foragers were trained to forage from their nest to two plastic feeding vessels through a T-shaped glass maze with the two branches at 180 degrees. Diluted honey was placed at the end of the left branch only. Ants seen in the left vessel were marked with Tipp-ex (R) correction fluid. When all orientation cues were suppressed except chemical and idiothetic, the distribution of foragers was significantly towards the left trained feeding site both in light and darkness. In the reversal experiment, when both cues were presented in a conflicting manner by reversing the spatial layout of the previously used maze by 180 degrees, the foragers showed a significant preference for the chemically marked branch to the right in darkness, but in light they did not show any preference for either branches of the T-maze. When chemical cues were removed, foragers showed a significant preference for the left trained feeding site both in light and darkness. This demonstrates that foragers use some idiothetic left/right turning memory.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Formica Pratensis, Orientation, Proprioreception, Idiothetic Memory, 3 Dimensional System, Periplaneta-Americana, Campaniform Sensilla, Orientation, Navigation, Cockroach, Compensation, Humans, Spider
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Biologia
WoS Q Değeri
Q4
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Q3
Cilt
60
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2
