Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines,
including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting …

The performance of free-flying and harnessed honeybees has been studied in a variety of
experiments patterned after those in which learning in vertebrates has been studied …

In the three quarters of a century following Pavlov's work, the accumulation of factual
information about classical conditioning has continued, but there has been little conceptual …

In multi-armed bandit situations, gamblers must choose repeatedly between options that
differ in reward probability, without prior information on the options' relative profitability …

Are bird songs learned or genetically programmed? How do animals attract the opposite
sex? How does play affect development? How do wolves signal surrender? Which animals …

Bees tend to avoid or to show indifference to uncertain (“risky”) relative to certain (“safe”)
food rewards, whether in nectar volume or in nectar concentration. The unattractiveness of …

Honeybees forage on diverse flowers which vary in the amount and type of rewards they
offer, and bees are challenged with maximizing the resources they gather for their colony …

Two spring-type faba beans (D-27 self-fertile, D-23 non self-fertile) were observed in open
field conditions for their nectar amount and sugar composition and their attractiveness to …

The matching law (Herrnstein 1961) states that response rates become proportional to
reinforcement rates; this is related to the empirical phenomenon called probability matching …

Six experiments with color-odor compounds failed to produce convincing evidence of
blocking in honeybees even when the possibility of masking by within-compound …