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| Title |
Selective attention in the honeybee optic lobes precedes behavioral choices
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| Published in |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, March 2014
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| DOI | 10.1073/pnas.1323297111 |
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| Authors |
Angelique C. Paulk, Jacqueline A. Stacey, Thomas W. J. Pearson, Gavin J. Taylor, Richard J. D. Moore, Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Bruno van Swinderen |
| Abstract |
Attention allows animals to respond selectively to competing stimuli, enabling some stimuli to evoke a behavioral response while others are ignored. How the brain does this remains mysterious, although it is increasingly evident that even animals with the smallest brains display this capacity. For example, insects respond selectively to salient visual stimuli, but it is unknown where such selectivity occurs in the insect brain, or whether neural correlates of attention might predict the visual choices made by an insect. Here, we investigate neural correlates of visual attention in behaving honeybees (Apis mellifera). Using a closed-loop paradigm that allows tethered, walking bees to actively control visual objects in a virtual reality arena, we show that behavioral fixation increases neuronal responses to flickering, frequency-tagged stimuli. Attention-like effects were reduced in the optic lobes during replay of the same visual sequences, when bees were not able to control the visual displays. When bees were presented with competing frequency-tagged visual stimuli, selectivity in the medulla (an optic ganglion) preceded behavioral selection of a stimulus, suggesting that modulation of early visual processing centers precedes eventual behavioral choices made by these insects. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 4 | 80% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 80% |
| Scientists | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 194 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 188 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 59 | 30% |
| Researcher | 39 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 21 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 4% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 27 | 14% |
| Unknown | 32 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 63 | 32% |
| Neuroscience | 44 | 23% |
| Psychology | 14 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 25 | 13% |
| Unknown | 36 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 December 2018.
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