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SUBMITTER: Van Nest BN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6057764 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of undergraduate neuroscience education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience 20180615 2
The beginning neuroscience or psychology student does not often have the opportunity to experiment with classical conditioning. Here I present an inexpensive, easy-to-implement classical conditioning experiment taking advantage of the proboscis extension response to train honey bees to learn an appetitive olfactory association. If an apiary is available, this exercise can be implemented in large scale (training many animals simultaneously) with no specialized equipment so that students can train ...[more]