Invertebrate Learning and Memory: Chapter 33. Extinction Learning and Memory Formation in the Honeybee

Invertebrate Learning and Memory: Chapter 33. Extinction Learning and Memory Formation in the Honeybee
ISBN-10
0128071818
ISBN-13
9780128071816
Series
Invertebrate Learning and Memory
Category
Medical
Pages
600
Language
English
Published
2013-06-18
Publisher
Elsevier Inc. Chapters
Author
Dorothea Eisenhardt

Description

The behavioral phenomenon of extinction resembles the decrease of a conditioned behavior when animals experience the presentation of a previously reinforced stimulus. In honeybees, extinction is studied in an appetitive learning paradigm, the olfactory conditioning of the proboscis extension response. Here, I describe recent work on extinction in honeybees (Apis mellifera) and its underlying molecular mechanisms. I demonstrate that extinction in honeybees shares behavioral and molecular similarities with extinction in vertebrates, and I discuss whether these similarities might indicate that extinction is a phylogenetically old mechanism.

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