Motion cues from the background influence associative color learning of honey bees in a virtual-reality scenario Lafon, G, Howard, Scarlett, Paffhausen, BH, Avarguès-Weber, A and Giurfa, M 2021, Motion cues from the background influence associative color learning of honey bees in a virtual-reality scenario, Scientific Reports, vol. 11, pp. 1-20, doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-00630-x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Motion cues from the background influence associative color learning of honey bees in a virtual-reality scenario Author(s) Lafon, G Howard, Scarlett orcid.org/0000-0002-1895-5409 Paffhausen, BH Avarguès-Weber, A Giurfa, M Journal name Scientific Reports Volume number 11 Article ID 21127 Start page 1 End page 20 Total pages 20 Publisher Nature Publishing Group Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2021 ISSN 2045-2322 2045-2322 Keyword(s) ANT ODOMETER ANTERIOR OPTIC TUBERCLE ATTENTION DISCRIMINATION DISTANCE ESTIMATION DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER FLOW INTEGRATION Multidisciplinary Sciences PERCEPTION Science & Technology Science & Technology - Other Topics VISUAL ORIENTATION Summary AbstractHoney bees exhibit remarkable visual learning capacities, which can be studied using virtual reality (VR) landscapes in laboratory conditions. Existing VR environments for bees are imperfect as they provide either open-loop conditions or 2D displays. Here we achieved a true 3D environment in which walking bees learned to discriminate a rewarded from a punished virtual stimulus based on color differences. We included ventral or frontal background cues, which were also subjected to 3D updating based on the bee movements. We thus studied if and how the presence of such motion cues affected visual discrimination in our VR landscape. Our results showed that the presence of frontal, and to a lesser extent, of ventral background motion cues impaired the bees’ performance. Whenever these cues were suppressed, color discrimination learning became possible. We analyzed the specific contribution of foreground and background cues and discussed the role of attentional interference and differences in stimulus salience in the VR environment to account for these results. Overall, we show how background and target cues may interact at the perceptual level and influence associative learning in bees. In addition, we identify issues that may affect decision-making in VR landscapes, which require specific control by experimenters. Language eng DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-00630-x Indigenous content off HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30158639 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment School of Life and Environmental Sciences Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to full text (open access) Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 18 Nov 2021, 07:53:11 EST Thu, 18 Nov 2021, 15:16:59 EST Thu, 18 Nov 2021, 16:02:54 EST Thu, 18 Nov 2021, 16:08:52 EST Sat, 27 Nov 2021, 01:31:14 EST Wed, 08 Dec 2021, 13:01:25 EST Wed, 08 Dec 2021, 13:40:24 EST Wed, 08 Dec 2021, 13:43:26 EST Mon, 17 Jan 2022, 13:54:01 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 3 times in TR Web of Science Cited 3 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 61 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 18 Nov 2021, 15:16:59 EST