Equipped with a mini brain smaller than one cubic millimeter and containing only 950,000
neurons, honeybees could be indeed considered as having rather limited cognitive abilities …

Evidence of left–right asymmetries in invertebrates has begun to emerge, suggesting that
lateralization of the nervous system may be a feature of simpler brains as well as more …

Visual learning admits different levels of complexity, from the formation of a simple
associative link between a visual stimulus and its outcome, to more sophisticated …

Highlights•Cognitive flexibility varies greatly within and between species.•Better memory
retention seems to be associated with less memory flexibility.•Increased memory capacity …

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) play an important role in agriculture worldwide. Several factors
including agrochemicals can affect honey bee health including habitat fragmentation …

Variation in learning and memory abilities among closely related species, or even among
populations of the same species, has opened research into the relationship between …

This review provides evidence for the enormous richness of insect behavior, its high
flexibility, and the cross-talk between different behavioral routines. The memory structure …

Honeybees have the ability to flexibly change their preference for a visual pattern according
to the context in which a discrimination task is carried out. This study investigated the effect …

The honeybee Apis mellifera, with a brain of only 960,000 neurons and the ability to perform
sophisticated cognitive tasks, has become an excellent model in life sciences and in …

Lateralized recall of olfactory memory in honeybees was tested, following conditioning of the
proboscis extension reflex (PER), at 1 or 6h after training. After training with lemon (+)/vanilla …