Memory of the Solar Ephemeris in Honey Bees

动物行为计划非技术摘要提案编号：9816691 PI：William F.城镇名称：- 我知道蜜蜂对太阳星历的记忆包括蜜蜂在内的许多动物都能记住太阳运动的时间过程，以帮助它们确定方向，关于它们是如何做到这一点的，我们还有很多要学的。根据首席研究员最近的研究结果，蜜蜂似乎在生命早期只记住一次太阳的路线;如果它们被动地从出生地转移到另一个类似的地点，它们不会重新学习太阳相对于新景观的路线。在这个项目中，研究将确定蜜蜂是否可以重新学习太阳的运动，如果可以的话，在什么特定的生物相关的情况下。 此外，对流离失所的蜜蜂进行的进一步实验将探索蜜蜂学习太阳路线的认知结构，例如，蜜蜂对太阳路线的记忆是否与它们对景观的记忆密不可分，或者这两种记忆是否是可分离的。蜜蜂是行为生物学中重要的模式生物。 这个物种在感觉生物学和它们的交流、定向和学习机制方面有很好的了解。 因此，这个项目的结果将加深我们对复杂的外部关系是如何被小大脑获得和编码的理解。

Animal Behavior ProgramNontechnical AbstractProposal #: 9816691PI: William F. Towne Title: RUI: Memory of the Solar Ephemeris in Honey BeesMany animals, including honey bees, memorize the time course of the sun's movements for use in their orientation, and there is much to learn about how they do this. According to the principal investigator's recent results, honey bees seem to memorize the sun's course only once early in life; they do not re-learn the sun's course relative to a new landscape if they are passively displaced from their natal site to another, similar site. In this project, the research will determine whether or not bees can ever re-learn the sun's movements and, if so, under what particular, biologically relevant circumstances. In addition, further experiments with displaced bees will explore the cognitive structures underlying the bees' learning of the sun's course, showing, for example, whether the bees' memory of the sun's course is inextricably linked to their memory of the landscape, or whether the two memories are separable. Honey bees have been important model organisms in behavioral biology. This species is well understood with respect to sensory biology and their mechanisms of communication, orientation, and learning. The results of this project will therefore deepen our understanding of how complex external relationships are acquired and encoded by small brains in general.