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Team publications ExPlaIn (Devaud/Giurfa)
Neonicotinoid effects on tropical bees: Imidacloprid impairs innate appetitive responsiveness, learning and memory in the stingless bee Melipona quadrifasciata
Science of the Total Environment 877:162859
2023 Jun
Sex and lifestyle dictate learning performance in a neotropical wasp
iScience 26 106469
2023 Apr
A Cognitive Account of Trace Conditioning in Insects.
Curr Opin Insect Sci. 101034 doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2023.101034
2023 Apr
Efficient visual-learning by bumble bees in virtual-reality conditions: size does not matter
Journal of Insect Science
2023 Feb https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.13181
2-D sex images elicit mate copying in fruit flies.
Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-9
2022 Dec
Conformity in mate choice, the overlooked social component of animal and human culture.
Biological Reviews 98(1), 132-149
2022 Dec
Female fruit flies copy the acceptance, but not the rejection, of a mate.
Behavioral Ecology 33(5), 1018–1024
2022 Nov
Pollinator cognition: Framing bee memories in an ecological context.
Current Biology 32(19): R1015-R1018
2022 Oct
Reduction of stress responses in honey bees by synthetic ligands targeting an allatostatin receptor.
Sci Rep 12 167160
2022 Oct
An insect brain organizes numbers on a left-to-right mental number line.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 119 (44) e2203584119
2022 Sep
Flies maintain idiosyncratic learning proficiency across odor-discrimination tasks.
Learning & Behavior 50:265-266
2022 Aug
Honey bees cannot sense harmful concentrations of metal pollutants in food.
Chemosphere 297 134089
2022 Jun
Numerosity categorization by parity in an insect and simple neural network.
Front Ecol Evol, 10
2022 Apr
Food wanting is mediated by transient activation of dopaminergic signaling in the honey bee brain.
Science 376 (6592): 508–512
2022 Apr
Bees can be trained to identify SARS-CoV-2 infected samples.
Biology Open 11(4), bio059111
2022 Apr
Martin Giurfa – Questions & Answers.
Current Biology 32(14):R761-R763
2022 Mar
The short neuropeptide F (sNPF) promotes the formation of appetitive visual memories in honey bees
Biology Letters 18: 2021052020210520
2022 Feb
Visual learning in a virtual reality environment upregulates immediate early gene expression in the mushroom bodies of honey bees.
Communications Biology 5(1):130
2022 Feb
The neural signature of visual learning under restrictive virtual reality conditions.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 16: 846076
2022 Feb
The short neuropeptide F regulates appetitive but not aversive responsiveness in a social insect
iScience 25: 103619
2022 Jan
Mechanisms for bridging stimuli in Pavlovian trace conditioning in flies.
Current Biology 32(11), R532 - R535
2022 Jan
Gap affordance judgments in bumblebees: Same as humans?
Learning & Behavior
2021 Nov DOI: 10.3758/s13420-021-00486-1
Inhibition of serotonergic signaling induces higher consumption of both sucrose solution and toxic baits in carpenter ants
Scientific Reports 11, 19176.
2021 Nov DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-98030-8
Formic acid modulates latency and accuracy of nestmate recognition in carpenter ants
Journal of Experimental Biology 224(20): jeb242784
2021 Nov DOI: 10.1242/jeb.242784
Evidence of cognitive specialization in an insect: proficiency is maintained across elemental and higher-order visual learning but not between sensory modalities in honey bees
Journal of Experimental Biology jeb.242470
2021 Nov DOI: 10.1242/jeb.242470
Motion cues from the background influence associative color learning of honey bees in a virtual-reality scenario.
Scientific Reports 11, 21127.
2021 Nov DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-00630-x
Adipokinetic hormone (AKH), energy budget and their effect on feeding and gustatory processes of foraging honey bees.
Scientific Reports 11: 18311
2021 Sep
Beyond social learning
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2021 Jul 5;376(1828):20200050.
2021 Jul doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0050.
Charles Henry Turner and the cognitive behavior of bees.
Apidologie (2021)
2021 Jul PMID: 33934411
Peripheral taste detection in honey bees: What do taste receptors respond to?
Eur J Neurosci. doi: 10.1111/ejn.15265
2021 Jun
Heavy metal pollutants have addictive effects on honey bee cognition
Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb.241869. doi: 10.1242/jeb.241869
2021 May
Chronic exposure to lead impairs honey bee learning
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 212:112008
2021 Apr
Social facilitation of long-lasting memory is mediated by CO2 in Drosophila
Curr Biol. 2021 Mar 12:S0960-9822(21)00288-8
2021 Mar
Social facilitation of long-lasting memory is mediated by CO2 in Drosophila
Current Biology 12:S0960-9822(21)00288-8
2021 Mar doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.044.
Current permissible levels of heavy metal pollutants harm terrestrial invertebrates
Science of the Total Environment 779:146398
2021 Mar
Unraveling the motivational secrets of honey bee foraging during the COVID pandemic
iScience 25(4):104116
2021 Jan
Black lives matter: revisiting Charles Henry Turner’s experiments on honey bee color vision
Current Biology 30(20): R1235-R1239. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.075
2020 Nov Available for free download
Fruit flies can learn non-elemental olfactory discriminations.
Proc Royal Soc Biol Sci. 287(1938):20201234.
2020 Nov doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1234.
Pheromone components affect motivation and induce persistent modulation of associative learning and memory in honey bees
Commun Biol. 2020 Aug 17;3(1):447. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01183-x.
2020 Sep
Different mechanisms underlie implicit visual statistical learning in honey bees and humans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sep 2020, 201919387; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1919387117
2020 Sep
Behavioral tagging underlies memory reconsolidation
PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 202009517: 1-8
2020 Aug https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009517117
Degradation of an appetitive olfactory memory via devaluation of sugar reward is mediated by 5-HT signaling in the honey bee
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 173: 107278
2020 Jul
Learning of sameness/difference relationships by honey bees: performance, strategies and ecological context
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 37: 1-6
2020 Jul
Trail-pheromone modulates subjective reward evaluation in Argentine ants
The Journal of Experimental Biology jeb.230532 doi: 10.1242/jeb.230532
2020 Jul
A cognitive analysis of deceptive pollination: associative mechanisms underlying pollinators' choices in non-rewarding colour polymorphic scenarios
Scientific Reports 10(1):9476, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-66356-4
2020 Jun
Spontaneous quantity discrimination of artificial flowers by foraging honeybees
J Exp Biol 223(Pt 9). pii: jeb223610. doi: 10.1242/jeb.223610.
2020 May
The miticide thymol in combination with trace levels of the neonicotinoid imidacloprid reduces visual learning performance in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
Apidologie 51:499-509
2020 May
Automated monitoring of bee behaviour using connected hives: towards a computational apidology
Apidologie 51: 356-368
2020 May
Redefining single-trial memories in the honeybee
Cell Reports 30: 2603–2613
2020 Feb The Editor's Choice of The Scientist: https://www.the-scientist.com/the-literature/once-is-enough-for-long-term-memory-formation-in-bees-67467
(2020) Higher-order discrimination learning by honey bees in a virtual environment
European Journal of Neuroscience 00: 1-14. doi: 10.1111/ejn.14633.
2020 Jan
Spatial-memory formation after spaced learning involves ERKs1/2 activation through a behavioral-tagging process.
Scientific Reports 10:98. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-57007-4
2020 Jan
Editorial: The Mechanisms of Insect Cognition.
Frontiers in Psychology 10:2751. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02751
2019 Dec
Acute thiamethoxam toxicity in honeybees is not enhanced by common fungicide and herbicide and lacks stress-induced changes in mRNA splicing.
Sci Rep. 9(1):19196. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55534-8.
2019 Dec
Surpassing the subitizing threshold: appetitive-aversive conditioning improves discrimination of numerosities in honeybees
J Exp Biol. 222(Pt 19). pii: jeb205658. doi: 10.1242/jeb.205658.
2019 Oct
Achieving arithmetic learning in honeybees and examining how individuals learn.
Commun Integr Biol. 12(1):166-170. doi: 10.1080/19420889.2019.1678452
2019 Oct
“Inhibitory learning of phototaxis by honeybees in a passive-avoidance task”
Learning & Memory
2019 Sep 26. 1.3-12. 10.1101/lm.050120.119
An insect’s sense of number.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences 23(9):720-722. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.06.010.
2019 Sep
Honeybees prefer novel insect-pollinated flower shapes over bird-pollinated flower shapes.
Curr Zool. 65(4):457-465. doi: 10.1093/cz/zoy095.
2019 Aug
Honey bees use absolute rather than relative numerosity rules in number discrimination.
Biology Letters 15:6 20190138. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0138
2019 Jun
Honeybees foraging for numbers.
Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 205(3): 439-450. doi: 10.1007/s00359-019-01344-2.
2019 Jun
Symbolic representation of numerosity by honeybees ( Apis mellifera): matching characters to small quantities.
Proc Biol Sci. 2019 286(1904):20190238. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0238
2019 Jun
Thymol Affects Congruency Between Olfactory and Gustatory Stimuli in Bees.
Scientific Reports
2019 May 10.1038/s41598-019-43614-8.
Honey bees increase their foraging performance and frequency of pollen trips through experience.
Scientific Reports. 9:6778.
2019 Apr
Foraging experiences durably modulate honey bees' sucrose responsiveness and antennal lobe biogenic amine levels.
Scientific Reports 9(1):5393. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41624-0
2019 Apr
Pheromone-induced accuracy of nestmate recognition in carpenter ants: simultaneous decrease of Type I and Type II errors.
American Naturalist 193(2):267-278. doi: 10.1086/701123
2019 Feb
Numerical cognition in honeybees enables addition and subtraction.
Science Advances 5(2):eaav0961. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0961. eCollection 2019 Feb.
2019 Feb
Changes in responsiveness to allatostatin treatment accompany shifts in stress reactivity in young worker honey bees.
J Comp Physiol A 205(1):51-59. doi: 10.1007/s00359-018-1302-0.
2019 Feb
Cultural flies: Conformist social learning in fruitflies predicts long-lasting mate-choice traditions
Science
2018 Nov Vol. 362, Issue 6418, pp. 1025-1030, DOI: 10.1126/science.aat1590.
Aminergic neuromodulation of associative visual learning in harnessed honey bees.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory pii: S1074-7427(18)30125-4. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.05.014.
2018 Nov
The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis
Philosophical Transactions B
2018 Sep 373:20170281
Mate copying in Drosophila melanogaster males
Animal Behaviour
2018 Sep 141:9-15.
Mate-copying for a costly variant in Drosophila melanogaster females.
Behavioral Ecology
2018 Sep 29(5), 1150-1156.
Individual size as determinant of sugar responsiveness in ants.
Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 72: 162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-018-2581-8.
2018 Aug
Seasonality, alarm pheromone and serotonin: insights on the neurobiology of honeybee defence from winter bees.
Biology Letters 14(8). pii: 20180337. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0337.
2018 Aug
Does Holistic Processing Require a Large Brain? Insights From Honeybees and Wasps in Fine Visual Recognition Tasks.
Front Psychol. 9:1313. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01313. eCollection 2018.
2018 Jul
Transfer of visual learning between a virtual and a real environment in honey bees: the role of active vision.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 12:139. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00139.
2018 Jul
Can honey bees discriminate between floral-fragrance isomers?
Journal of Experimental Biology 221(Pt 14). pii: jeb180844. doi: 10.1242/jeb.180844.
2018 Jul
Numerical ordering of zero in honey bees
Science 360:1124-1126
2018 Jun
Numerical ordering of zero in honey bees.
Science 360(6393):1124-1126. doi: 10.1126/science.aar4975.
2018 Jun
Lateralization of sucrose responsiveness and non-associative learning in honeybees.
Frontiers in Psychology 9:425. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00425
2018 Mar
Pheromones modulate responsiveness to noxious stimuli in honey bees.
Journal of Experimental Biology 221(Pt 5) doi: 10.1242/jeb.172270
2018 Mar
Differential processing by two olfactory subsystems in the honeybee brain.
Neuroscience 74:33-48. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.01.029
2018 Mar
Cooperative defence operates by social modulation of biogenic amine levels in the honeybee brain.
Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences 285(1871). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2653.
2018 Jan
Aversive gustatory learning and perception in honey bees.
Scientific Reports 8(1):1343. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19715-1.
2018 Jan
Aversive gustatory learning and perception in honey bees.
Scientific Reports 8(1):1343. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19715-1.
2018 Jan
Do insects have emotions? Some insights from bumblebees
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
2017 Aug 11:157
Inter-individual variability in the foraging behaviour of traplining bumblebees
Scientific Reports
2017 Mar 7:4561
Why bees are so vulnerable to environmental stressors
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
2017 Jan 32:268-278
Neuropharmacological manipulation of restrained and free-flying honey bees , Apis mellifera
Journal of Visualized Experiments 117; doi: 10.3791/54695
2016 Dec
Olfactory experience shapes the evaluation of odour similarity in ants: a behavioural and computational analysis
Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283: 20160551. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0551
2016 Aug
Absence of food alternatives promotes risk-prone feeding of unpalatable substances in honey bees
Scientific Reports 6:31809, DOI: 10.1038/srep31809
2016 Aug
Prolonged effects of in-hive monoterpenoids on the honey bee Apis mellifera.
Ecotoxicology 25(5):856-62. doi: 10.1007/s10646-016-1642-x
2016 Jul
Monoterpenoid-based preparations in beehives affect learning, memory and gene expression in the bee brain
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (doi: 10.1002/etc.3527
2016 Jun
Drosophila females trade off good nutrition with high quality oviposition sites when choosing foods.
Journal of Experimental Biology 219:2514-2524
2016 Jun
Evidence of trapline foraging in honeybees.
Journal of Experimental Biology 219:2426-2429
2016 Jun
Neural substrate for higher-order learning in an insect: Mushroom bodies are necessary for configural discriminations
PNAS
2015 Oct vol. 112 no. 43 E5854-E5862
Effect of a thymol application on olfactory memory and gene expression levels in the brain of the honeybee Apis mellifera
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
2015 Jun
Sexual Dimorphism and Phenotypic Plasticity in the Antennal Lobe of a Stingless Bee, Melipona scutellaris
J Comp Neurol.
2015 Apr doi: 10.1002/cne.23744.
Differential Combinatorial Coding of Pheromones in Two Olfactory Subsystems of the Honey Bee Brain
The Journal of Neuroscience
2015 Mar 35(10): 4157-4167; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0734-14
Odourant dominance in olfactory mixture processing: what makes a strong odourant?
Proc Biol Sci.
2015 Mar 7;282(1802). pii: 20142562. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2562
Information transfer beyond the waggle dance: observational learning in bees and flies
Front. Ecol. Evol.
2015 Mar 3:24. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00024
Learning and cognition in insects
WIREs Cognitive Science
2015 Mar Volume 6, Issue 4, pages 383–395, doi: 10.1002/wcs.1348
The scent ofmixtures: rules of odour processing in ants
Sci. Rep
2015 Mar 5, 8659; DOI:10.1038/srep08659
Information transfer beyond the waggle dance: observational learning in bees and flies.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 3: Article 24.
2015 Feb
Learning context modulates aversive taste strength in honey bees
The Journal of Experimental Biology
2015 Jan 218, 949-959, doi:10.1242/jeb.117333
"Odor coding in the lateral horn of an insect"
Current Biology
2014 Mar 24(5) p. 561-567
Higher-order discrimination learning by honey bees in a virtual environment
bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/403956.
T Individual size as determinant of sugar responsiveness in ants.
Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology
Seasonality, alarm pheromone and serotonin: insights on the neurobiology of honeybee defence from winter bees.
Biology Letters 14(8). pii: 20180337.
Transfer of visual learning between a virtual and a real environment in honey bees: the role of active vision.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 12:139.
Can honey bees discriminate between floral-fragrance isomers?
Journal of Experimental Biology 221(Pt 14). pii: jeb180844. doi: 10.1242/jeb.180844.
Aminergic neuromodulation of associative visual learning in harnessed honey bees.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory pii: S1074-7427(18)30125-4. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.05.014.
Lateralization of sucrose responsiveness and non-associative learning in honeybees.
Frontiers in Psychology 9:425. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00425
A tyrosine-hydroxylase characterization of dopaminergic neurons in the honey bee brain
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 11:47. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2017.00047.
Pheromones modulate responsiveness to noxious stimuli in honey bees.
Journal of Experimental Biology 221(Pt 5) doi: 10.1242/jeb.172270.
Cooperative defence operates by social modulation of biogenic amine levels in the honeybee brain.
Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences 285(1871). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2653
Differential processing by two olfactory subsystems in the honeybee brain.
Neuroscience 74:33-48. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.01.029
Aversive gustatory learning and perception in honey bees.
Scientific Reports 8(1):1343. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19715-1.
Aversive learning of odor-heat associations in ants.
Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 4661-4668. doi: 10.1242/jeb.161737.
Higher iridescent-to-pigment optical effect in flowers facilitates learning, memory and generalisation in foraging bumblebees.
Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences 284: 20171097. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1097
Associative visual learning by tethered bees in a controlled visual environment.
Scientific Reports 7: 12903. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12631-w 1
Using virtual reality to study visual performances of honeybees.
Current Opinion in Insect Science, 24:43-50 doi:10.1016/j.cois.2017.08.003
Pheromones modulate reward responsiveness and non-associative learning in honey bees.
Scientific Reports 7(1):9875. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-10113-7.
Olfactory learning without the mushroom bodies: spiking neural network models of the honeybee lateral antennal lobe tract reveal its capacities in odour memory tasks of varied complexities.
PLoS Computational Biology 13(6):e1005551. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005551
Cognitive adaptation in asexual and sexual wasps living in contrasted environments.
PLoS One 12(5): e0177581. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0177581
Information certainty determines social and private information use in ants.
Scientific Reports 7: 43697. 10.1038/srep43607.
Transfer of visual learning between a virtual and a real environment in honey bees: the role of active vision.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 12:139.
Can honey bees discriminate between floral-fragrance isomers?
Journal of Experimental Biology 221(Pt 14). pii: jeb180844. doi: 10.1242/jeb.180844.
Aminergic neuromodulation of associative visual learning in harnessed honey bees.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory pii: S1074-7427(18)30125-4. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.05.014.
Differential processing by two olfactory subsystems in the honeybee brain.
Neuroscience 74:33-48. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.01.029
Aversive gustatory learning and perception in honey bees.
Scientific Reports 8(1):1343. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19715-1.
Neonicotinoid effects on tropical bees: Imidacloprid impairs innate appetitive responsiveness, learning and memory in the stingless bee Melipona quadrifasciata
Science of the Total Environment 877:162859
Sex and lifestyle dictate learning performance in a neotropical wasp
iScience 26 106469
Sex and lifestyle dictate learning performance in a neotropical wasp
iScience 26 106469
Neonicotinoid effects on tropical bees: Imidacloprid impairs innate appetitive responsiveness, learning and memory in the stingless bee Melipona quadrifasciata
Science of the Total Environment 877:162859