Motion cues from the background influence associative color learning of honey bees in a virtual-reality scenario.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
26 10 2021
26 10 2021
Historique:
received:
22
07
2021
accepted:
13
10
2021
entrez:
27
10
2021
pubmed:
28
10
2021
medline:
27
1
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Honey bees exhibit remarkable visual learning capacities, which can be studied using virtual reality (VR) landscapes in laboratory conditions. Existing VR environments for bees are imperfect as they provide either open-loop conditions or 2D displays. Here we achieved a true 3D environment in which walking bees learned to discriminate a rewarded from a punished virtual stimulus based on color differences. We included ventral or frontal background cues, which were also subjected to 3D updating based on the bee movements. We thus studied if and how the presence of such motion cues affected visual discrimination in our VR landscape. Our results showed that the presence of frontal, and to a lesser extent, of ventral background motion cues impaired the bees' performance. Whenever these cues were suppressed, color discrimination learning became possible. We analyzed the specific contribution of foreground and background cues and discussed the role of attentional interference and differences in stimulus salience in the VR environment to account for these results. Overall, we show how background and target cues may interact at the perceptual level and influence associative learning in bees. In addition, we identify issues that may affect decision-making in VR landscapes, which require specific control by experimenters.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34702914
doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-00630-x
pii: 10.1038/s41598-021-00630-x
pmc: PMC8548521
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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Pagination
21127Subventions
Organisme : European Research Council
ID : Cognibrains
Pays : International
Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s).
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