New Research Article published in Journal of Experimental Biology
RESEARCH ARTICLE Aversive learning of odor–heat associations in ants Lucie Desmedt, David Baracchi, Jean-Marc Devaud, Martin Giurfa,...
New paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Decoding ants’ olfactory system sheds light on the evolution of social communication Patrizia d’Ettorre, Nina Deisig Jean-Christophe...
New paper published in Scientific Reports
Article | OPEN Pheromones modulate reward responsiveness and non-associative learning in honey bees David Baracchi, Jean-Marc Devaud, ...
XII congress, International society for Neuroethology, Montevideo, Uruguay
Very interesitng conference in Montevideo about Neuroethology. We went there presenting our results on moths and honeybees.... here the...
Responses to pheromones in a complex odor world: sensory processing and behavior.
Insects communicating with pheromones, be it sex- or aggregation pheromones, are confronted with an olfactory environment rich in a...
Appetitive and aversive olfactory learning induce similar generalization rates in the honey bee.
Appetitive and aversive learning drive an animal toward or away from stimuli predicting reinforcement, respectively. The specificity of...
Associative learning in ants: conditioning of the maxilla-labium extension response in Camponotus ae
Associative learning has been studied in many vertebrates and invertebrates. In social insects, the proboscis extension response...
An alarm pheromone modulates appetitive olfactory learning in the honeybee (Apis mellifera).
In honeybees, associative learning is embedded in a social context as bees possess a highly complex social organization in which...
Queen pheromone blocks aversive learning in young worker bees
Queen mandibular pheromone (QMP) has profound effects on dopamine signaling in the brain of young worker honey bees. As dopamine in...