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Czaczkes, Tomer J. ; Kumar, P.

Very rapid multi-odour discrimination learning in the ant Lasius niger

Czaczkes, Tomer J. und Kumar, P. (2020) Very rapid multi-odour discrimination learning in the ant Lasius niger. Insectes Sociaux 67, S. 541-545.

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DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.44735


Zusammenfassung

Insects can be very good learners. For example, they can form associations between a cue and a reward after only one exposure. Discrimination learning, in which multiple cues are associated with different outcomes, is critical for responding correctly complex environments. However, the extent of such discrimination learning is not well explored. Studies concerning discrimination learning within ...

Insects can be very good learners. For example, they can form associations between a cue and a reward after only one exposure. Discrimination learning, in which multiple cues are associated with different outcomes, is critical for responding correctly complex environments. However, the extent of such discrimination learning is not well explored. Studies concerning discrimination learning within one valence are also rare. Here we ask whether Lasius niger ants can form multiple concurrent associations to different reward levels, and how rapidly such associations can be learned. We allowed individual workers to sequentially feed on up to four different food qualities, each associated with a different odour cue. Using pairwise preference tests, we found that ants can successfully learn at least two, and likely three, odour/quality associations, requiring as little as one exposure to each combination in order for learning to take place. By testing preference between two non-extreme values (i.e. between 0.4 M and 0.8 M having been trained to the qualities 0.2, 0.4, 0.8 and 1.6) we exclude the possibility that ants are only memorising the best and worst values in a set. Such rapid learning of multiple associations, within one valence and one modality, is impressive, and makes Lasius niger a very tractable model for complex training paradigms.



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DokumentenartArtikel
Titel eines Journals oder einer ZeitschriftInsectes Sociaux
Verlag:SPRINGER BASEL AG
Ort der Veröffentlichung:BASEL
Band:67
Seitenbereich:S. 541-545
Datum10 November 2020
InstitutionenBiologie und Vorklinische Medizin > Institut für Zoologie
Biologie und Vorklinische Medizin > Institut für Zoologie > Zoologie/Evolutionsbiologie (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze)
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10.1007/s00040-020-00787-0Nicht ausgewählt
Stichwörter / KeywordsLONG-TERM; MEMORY; Discrimination conditioning; Associative learning; Insects; Ants
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 590 Tiere (Zoologie)
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetJa, diese Version wurde begutachtet
An der Universität Regensburg entstandenJa
URN der UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-447358
Dokumenten-ID44735

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