Laure-Anne Poissonnier (@curiousant.bsky.social)

🚨New paper🐜 For the same duration of stimulus, Lasius niger ants learn better from a positive (sugar water) than a negative (falling into water) experience. For appetitive side learning, a single trial leads to a memory of a couple of hours. #ProcB royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/....

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Single-trial learning leads to mid-term memory formation in ants during an appetitive, but not an aversive, task | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Insects have been models of associative learning and its underlying memory mechanisms. Research on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the honeybee Apis mellifera yielded deep insights into the ... https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.3054