Compound conditioning in honeybees: Blocking tests of the independence assumption
Animal Learning & BehaviorPublished 1 December 1995Open access
E. Sumie Funayama, P. A. Couvillon, M. E. Bitterman
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Abstract
Six experiments with color-odor compounds failed to produce convincing evidence of blocking in honeybees even when the possibility of masking by within-compound association could be discounted. The parsimonious assumption that the components of a compound stimulus gain and lose associative strength independently with reinforcement and nonreinforcement of the compounds (which the experiments were designed to challenge) remains tenable for color-odor compounds, although perhaps not for intramodal compounds.
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