List of works - Martin Giurfa

A Tyrosine-Hydroxylase Characterization of Dopaminergic Neurons in the Honey Bee Brain

scientific article published on 10 July 2017

A cognitive analysis of deceptive pollination: associative mechanisms underlying pollinators' choices in non-rewarding colour polymorphic scenarios

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

A comparative analysis of neural taste processing in animals.

scientific article

A modified version of the unique cue theory accounts for olfactory compound processing in honeybees.

scientific article

Absence of food alternatives promotes risk-prone feeding of unpalatable substances in honey bees.

scientific article published on 18 August 2016

Alarm Pheromone Induces Stress Analgesia via an Opioid System in the Honeybee ⬇️

scientific article published on December 31, 1997

Amelα8 subunit knockdown in the mushroom body vertical lobes impairs olfactory retrieval in the honeybee, Apis mellifera

scientific article published on 4 September 2012

Aminergic neuromodulation of associative visual learning in harnessed honey bees

scientific article published on 21 May 2018

An Insect's Sense of Number

scientific article published on 20 July 2019

An alarm pheromone modulates appetitive olfactory learning in the honeybee (Apis mellifera) ⬇️

scientific article published on August 30, 2010

Antennal lobe processing increases separability of odor mixture representations in the honeybee.

scientific article

Appetitive and aversive olfactory learning induce similar generalization rates in the honey bee.

scientific article published in March 2014

Appetitive floral odours prevent aggression in honeybees

scientific article

Associative learning: the instructive function of biogenic amines.

scientific article published on October 2006

Associative mechanosensory conditioning of the proboscis extension reflex in honeybees.

scientific article

Associative visual learning by tethered bees in a controlled visual environment

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Aversive gustatory learning and perception in honey bees

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Aversive learning in honeybees revealed by the olfactory conditioning of the sting extension reflex

scientific article

Aversive learning of odor-heat associations in ants

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

Aversive learning overcomes appetitive innate responding in honeybees

scientific article published on 14 June 2011

Aversive reinforcement improves visual discrimination learning in free-flying honeybees.

scientific article

Behavioral Analysis of Learning and Memory in Honeybees ☆

Behavioral studies on tarsal gustation in honeybees: sucrose responsiveness and sucrose-mediated olfactory conditioning

scientific article published on 15 August 2008

Behavioral tagging underlies memory reconsolidation

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

Calcium and olfaction in an insect model: activity marker and actor of plasticity

scientific article published in January 2007

Calcium imaging in the ant Camponotus fellah reveals a conserved odour-similarity space in insects and mammals

scientific article

Can honey bees discriminate between floral-fragrance isomers?

scientific article published on 16 July 2018

Categorization of visual stimuli in the honeybee Apis mellifera

scientific article published on 15 August 2006

Chromatic processing in the anterior optic tubercle of the honey bee brain.

scientific article published in January 2013

Cognition by a mini brain

scientific article published in August 1999

Cognition with few neurons: higher-order learning in insects.

scientific article published on February 2013

Cognitive adaptation in asexual and sexual wasps living in contrasted environments

scientific article

Cognitive architecture of a mini-brain: the honeybee

scientific article (publication date: February 2001)

Cognitive components of color vision in honey bees: how conditioning variables modulate color learning and discrimination.

scientific article published on May 2014

Cognitive neuroethology: dissecting non-elemental learning in a honeybee brain.

scientific article published on December 2003

Color modulates olfactory learning in honeybees by an occasion-setting mechanism.

scientific article published on 17 February 2011

Conceptual learning by miniature brains

scientific article published on 9 October 2013

Conceptualization of above and below relationships by an insect

scientific article published on 10 November 2010

Conditioning procedure and color discrimination in the honeybee Apis mellifera

scientific article published on 23 April 2004

Configural olfactory learning in honeybees: negative and positive patterning discrimination

scientific article

Configural processing enables discrimination and categorization of face-like stimuli in honeybees

scientific article

Convergent evolution: floral guides, stingless bee nest entrances, and insectivorous pitchers.

scientific article published in September 2005

Cooperative defence operates by social modulation of biogenic amine levels in the honey bee brain.

scientific article published in January 2018

Cyclic nucleotide-gated channels, calmodulin, adenylyl cyclase, and calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II are required for late, but not early, long-term memory formation in the honeybee

scientific article published on 16 April 2014

Degradation of an appetitive olfactory memory via devaluation of sugar reward is mediated by 5-HT signaling in the honey bee

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Detection of bright and dim colours by honeybees

scientific article published in November 2000

Detection of coloured patterns by honeybees through chromatic and achromatic cues

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

Differential Processing by Two Olfactory Subsystems in the Honeybee Brain

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

Differential coding by two olfactory subsystems in the honeybee brain.

scientific article published on 9 May 2012

Differential combinatorial coding of pheromones in two olfactory subsystems of the honey bee brain

scientific article published in March 2015

Differential conditioning and long-term olfactory memory in individual Camponotus fellah ants.

scientific article published in June 2009

Discrimination of coloured patterns by honeybees through chromatic and achromatic cues

scientific article published on 5 July 2002

Do Insects Have Emotions? Some Insights from Bumble Bees

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

Early olfactory experience induces structural changes in the primary olfactory center of an insect brain.

scientific article published on 2 February 2012

Early olfactory experience modifies neural activity in the antennal lobe of a social insect at the adult stage.

scientific article published on 12 October 2009

Electrophysiological and behavioural characterization of gustatory responses to antennal 'bitter' taste in honeybees

scientific article published in December 2005

Evidence of cognitive specialization in an insect: proficiency is maintained across elemental and higher-order visual learning but not between sensory modalities in honey bees

scientific article published on 19 October 2021

Eye structure, activity rhythms, and visually-driven behavior are tuned to visual niche in ants

scientific article published in 2014

Food wanting is mediated by transient activation of dopaminergic signaling in the honey bee brain

scientific article published on 28 April 2022

Foraging Experiences Durably Modulate Honey Bees' Sucrose Responsiveness and Antennal Lobe Biogenic Amine Levels

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

GABAergic feedback signaling into the calyces of the mushroom bodies enables olfactory reversal learning in honey bees

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Higher iridescent-to-pigment optical effect in flowers facilitates learning, memory and generalization in foraging bumblebees

scientific article published in October 2017

Higher-order discrimination learning by honeybees in a virtual environment

scientific article published on 11 January 2020

Honeybees foraging for numbers

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Honeybees mark with scent and reject recently visited flowers.

scientific article published on January 1992

Honeybees use absolute rather than relative numerosity in number discrimination

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Human spatial representation derived from a honeybee compass

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Hydroxyurea-induced partial mushroom body ablation does not affect acquisition and retention of olfactory differential conditioning in honeybees.

scientific article published in November 2002

Hydroxyurea-induced partial mushroom body ablation in the honeybee Apis mellifera: volumetric analysis and quantitative protein determination.

scientific article published in January 2002

Improving decision speed, accuracy and group cohesion through early information gathering in house-hunting ants

scientific article

In memoriam of Prof. Josué A. Núñez (1924–2014).

scientific article published in January 2015

Individual consistency in the learning abilities of honey bees: cognitive specialization within sensory and reinforcement modalities

scientific article published in 2023

Information Certainty Determines Social and Private Information Use in Ants.

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

Inhibitory learning of phototaxis by honeybees in a passive-avoidance task

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Inhibitory neurotransmission and olfactory memory in honeybees

scientific article published on 12 September 2008

Insect visual perception: complex abilities of simple nervous systems.

scientific article published on August 1997

Interaction of visual and olfactory cues in the aggregation behaviour of the haematophagous bug Triatoma infestans

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Invertebrate learning and memory: Fifty years of olfactory conditioning of the proboscis extension response in honeybees ⬇️

scientific article published on January 17, 2012

Knowledgeable individuals lead collective decisions in ants.

scientific article published in September 2011

Latent inhibition in an insect: the role of aminergic signaling

scientific article published on 16 November 2012

Lateralization of Sucrose Responsiveness and Non-associative Learning in Honeybees.

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

Learning and cognition in insects.

scientific article published on 21 March 2015

Learning context modulates aversive taste strength in honey bees.

scientific article

Local-feature assembling in visual pattern recognition and generalization in honeybees

scientific article published in June 2004

Long-term olfactory memories are stabilised via protein synthesis in Camponotus fellah ants

scientific article published in October 2011

Mushroom-Body Memories: An Obituary Prematurely Written? ⬇️

scientific article published on April 24, 2012

Neural organization and visual processing in the anterior optic tubercle of the honeybee brain.

scientific article published in August 2011

Neural representation of olfactory mixtures in the honeybee antennal lobe

scientific article published in August 2006

Neural substrate for higher-order learning in an insect: Mushroom bodies are necessary for configural discriminations

scientific article

Non-elemental processing in olfactory discrimination tasks needs bilateral input in honeybees.

scientific article

Odour aversion after olfactory conditioning of the sting extension reflex in honeybees

scientific article published in March 2009

Odourant dominance in olfactory mixture processing: what makes a strong odourant?

scientific article published in March 2015

Olfactory blocking and odorant similarity in the honeybee.

scientific article

Olfactory coding in the honeybee lateral horn

scientific article published on 20 February 2014

Olfactory discrimination ability and odor structure-activity relationships in honeybees

scientific article published in August 1999

Olfactory experience shapes the evaluation of odour similarity in ants: a behavioural and computational analysis.

scientific article published in August 2016

Olfactory learning without the mushroom bodies: Spiking neural network models of the honeybee lateral antennal lobe tract reveal its capacities in odour memory tasks of varied complexities

scientific article

Parallel Olfactory Processing in the Honey Bee Brain: Odor Learning and Generalization under Selective Lesion of a Projection Neuron Tract

scientific article

Partial unilateral lesions of the mushroom bodies affect olfactory learning in honeybees Apis mellifera L.

scientific article published in January 2005

Pattern learning by honeybees: conditioning procedure and recognition strategy

scientific article published in February 1999

Peripheral taste detection in honey bees: What do taste receptors respond to?

scientific article published on 02 May 2021

Pharmacological modulation of aversive responsiveness in honey bees ⬇️

scientific article published on 07 January 2014

Pheromone components affect motivation and induce persistent modulation of associative learning and memory in honey bees

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Pheromones modulate responsiveness to a noxious stimulus in honey bees.

scientific article

Pheromones modulate reward responsiveness and non-associative learning in honey bees.

scientific article

Processing of sting pheromone and its components in the antennal lobe of the worker honeybee

scientific article published on 18 March 2008

Prof. Josué A. Núñez (1924-2014)

Reappraising social insect behavior through aversive responsiveness and learning

scientific article

Redefining Single-Trial Memories in the Honeybee

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Response to comment on “Food Wanting is Mediated by Transient Activation of Dopaminergic Signaling in the Honeybee Brain”

scientific article published on 03 August 2023

Revisiting olfactory classical conditioning of the proboscis extension response in honey bees: a step toward standardized procedures

scientific article published on 31 August 2012

Searching for learning-dependent changes in the antennal lobe: simultaneous recording of neural activity and aversive olfactory learning in honeybees.

scientific article

Seasonality in communication and collective decision-making in ants.

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

Seasonality, alarm pheromone and serotonin: insights on the neurobiology of honeybee defence from winter bees

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Sex and lifestyle dictate learning performance in a neotropical wasp

scientific article published in 2023

Sexual dimorphism and phenotypic plasticity in the antennal lobe of a stingless bee, Melipona scutellaris

scientific article published on 7 April 2015

Social learning in insects: a higher-order capacity?

scientific article

Spatial-Memory Formation After Spaced Learning Involves ERKs1/2 Activation Through a Behavioral-Tagging Process

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Spectral heterogeneity of honeybee ommatidia

scientific article published on 28 October 2005

Successive olfactory reversal learning in honeybees.

scientific article published on May 2002

Sucrose responsiveness, learning success, and task specialization in ants

scientific article published on 16 July 2013

Symmetry is in the eye of the beeholder: innate preference for bilateral symmetry in flower-naïve bumblebees

scientific article published on 17 June 2004

Symmetry perception in an insect

scientific article published in August 1996

Synaptic Organization of Microglomerular Clusters in the Lateral and Medial Bulbs of the Honeybee Brain.

scientific article

The cognitive implications of asymmetric color generalization in honeybees

scientific article published on 23 October 2007

The concepts of 'sameness' and 'difference' in an insect

scientific article

The defensive response of the honeybee Apis mellifera.

scientific article published on November 2016

The effect of similarity between elemental stimuli and compounds in olfactory patterning discriminations

scientific article published on May 2002

The forest or the trees: preference for global over local image processing is reversed by prior experience in honeybees

scientific article published in January 2015

The impact of reinforcement density on response differentiation in configural discrimination problems

scientific article published in September 2002

The influence of training length on generalization of visual feature assemblies in honeybees

scientific article published on 16 March 2005

The scent of mixtures: rules of odour processing in ants

scientific article

The short neuropeptide F (sNPF) promotes the formation of appetitive visual memories in honey bees

scientific article published on 02 February 2022

The tarsal taste of honey bees: behavioral and electrophysiological analyses

scientific article published on 04 February 2014

The trial-spacing effect in olfactory patterning discriminations in honeybees.

scientific article published on 20 November 2006

Toxic but drank: gustatory aversive compounds induce post-ingestional malaise in harnessed honeybees

scientific article

Trail-pheromone modulates subjective reward evaluation in Argentine ants

scientific article published on 17 July 2020

Understanding the logics of pheromone processing in the honeybee brain: from labeled-lines to across-fiber patterns.

scientific article published on 31 December 2007

Using local anaesthetics to block neuronal activity and map specific learning tasks to the mushroom bodies of an insect brain

scientific article published in December 2007

Using virtual reality to study visual performances of honeybees

scientific article published on 6 September 2017

Vectors, routes and maps: new discoveries about navigation in insects.

scientific article

Visual Cognition in Social Insects ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Visual conditioning of the sting extension reflex in harnessed honeybees.

scientific article published in November 2011

Visual learning in a virtual reality environment upregulates immediate early gene expression in the mushroom bodies of honey bees

scientific article published on 14 February 2022

List of works by Martin Giurfa

A Tyrosine-Hydroxylase Characterization of Dopaminergic Neurons in the Honey Bee Brain

A cognitive analysis of deceptive pollination: associative mechanisms underlying pollinators' choices in non-rewarding colour polymorphic scenarios

A comparative analysis of neural taste processing in animals.

A modified version of the unique cue theory accounts for olfactory compound processing in honeybees.

Absence of food alternatives promotes risk-prone feeding of unpalatable substances in honey bees.

Alarm Pheromone Induces Stress Analgesia via an Opioid System in the Honeybee ⬇️

Amelα8 subunit knockdown in the mushroom body vertical lobes impairs olfactory retrieval in the honeybee, Apis mellifera

Aminergic neuromodulation of associative visual learning in harnessed honey bees

An Insect's Sense of Number

An alarm pheromone modulates appetitive olfactory learning in the honeybee (Apis mellifera) ⬇️

Antennal lobe processing increases separability of odor mixture representations in the honeybee.

Appetitive and aversive olfactory learning induce similar generalization rates in the honey bee.

Appetitive floral odours prevent aggression in honeybees

Associative learning: the instructive function of biogenic amines.

Associative mechanosensory conditioning of the proboscis extension reflex in honeybees.

Associative visual learning by tethered bees in a controlled visual environment

Aversive gustatory learning and perception in honey bees

Aversive learning in honeybees revealed by the olfactory conditioning of the sting extension reflex

Aversive learning of odor-heat associations in ants

Aversive learning overcomes appetitive innate responding in honeybees

Aversive reinforcement improves visual discrimination learning in free-flying honeybees.

Behavioral Analysis of Learning and Memory in Honeybees ☆

Behavioral studies on tarsal gustation in honeybees: sucrose responsiveness and sucrose-mediated olfactory conditioning

Behavioral tagging underlies memory reconsolidation

Calcium and olfaction in an insect model: activity marker and actor of plasticity

Calcium imaging in the ant Camponotus fellah reveals a conserved odour-similarity space in insects and mammals

Can honey bees discriminate between floral-fragrance isomers?

Categorization of visual stimuli in the honeybee Apis mellifera

Chromatic processing in the anterior optic tubercle of the honey bee brain.

Cognition by a mini brain

Cognition with few neurons: higher-order learning in insects.

Cognitive adaptation in asexual and sexual wasps living in contrasted environments

Cognitive architecture of a mini-brain: the honeybee

Cognitive components of color vision in honey bees: how conditioning variables modulate color learning and discrimination.

Cognitive neuroethology: dissecting non-elemental learning in a honeybee brain.

Color modulates olfactory learning in honeybees by an occasion-setting mechanism.

Conceptual learning by miniature brains

Conceptualization of above and below relationships by an insect

Conditioning procedure and color discrimination in the honeybee Apis mellifera

Configural olfactory learning in honeybees: negative and positive patterning discrimination

Configural processing enables discrimination and categorization of face-like stimuli in honeybees

Convergent evolution: floral guides, stingless bee nest entrances, and insectivorous pitchers.

Cooperative defence operates by social modulation of biogenic amine levels in the honey bee brain.

Cyclic nucleotide-gated channels, calmodulin, adenylyl cyclase, and calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II are required for late, but not early, long-term memory formation in the honeybee

Degradation of an appetitive olfactory memory via devaluation of sugar reward is mediated by 5-HT signaling in the honey bee

Detection of bright and dim colours by honeybees

Detection of coloured patterns by honeybees through chromatic and achromatic cues

Differential Processing by Two Olfactory Subsystems in the Honeybee Brain

Differential coding by two olfactory subsystems in the honeybee brain.

Differential combinatorial coding of pheromones in two olfactory subsystems of the honey bee brain

Differential conditioning and long-term olfactory memory in individual Camponotus fellah ants.

Discrimination of coloured patterns by honeybees through chromatic and achromatic cues

Do Insects Have Emotions? Some Insights from Bumble Bees

Early olfactory experience induces structural changes in the primary olfactory center of an insect brain.

Early olfactory experience modifies neural activity in the antennal lobe of a social insect at the adult stage.

Electrophysiological and behavioural characterization of gustatory responses to antennal 'bitter' taste in honeybees

Evidence of cognitive specialization in an insect: proficiency is maintained across elemental and higher-order visual learning but not between sensory modalities in honey bees

Eye structure, activity rhythms, and visually-driven behavior are tuned to visual niche in ants

Food wanting is mediated by transient activation of dopaminergic signaling in the honey bee brain

Foraging Experiences Durably Modulate Honey Bees' Sucrose Responsiveness and Antennal Lobe Biogenic Amine Levels

GABAergic feedback signaling into the calyces of the mushroom bodies enables olfactory reversal learning in honey bees

Higher iridescent-to-pigment optical effect in flowers facilitates learning, memory and generalization in foraging bumblebees

Higher-order discrimination learning by honeybees in a virtual environment

Honeybees foraging for numbers

Honeybees mark with scent and reject recently visited flowers.

Honeybees use absolute rather than relative numerosity in number discrimination

Human spatial representation derived from a honeybee compass

Hydroxyurea-induced partial mushroom body ablation does not affect acquisition and retention of olfactory differential conditioning in honeybees.

Hydroxyurea-induced partial mushroom body ablation in the honeybee Apis mellifera: volumetric analysis and quantitative protein determination.

Improving decision speed, accuracy and group cohesion through early information gathering in house-hunting ants

In memoriam of Prof. Josué A. Núñez (1924–2014).

Individual consistency in the learning abilities of honey bees: cognitive specialization within sensory and reinforcement modalities

Information Certainty Determines Social and Private Information Use in Ants.

Inhibitory learning of phototaxis by honeybees in a passive-avoidance task

Inhibitory neurotransmission and olfactory memory in honeybees

Insect visual perception: complex abilities of simple nervous systems.

Interaction of visual and olfactory cues in the aggregation behaviour of the haematophagous bug Triatoma infestans

Invertebrate learning and memory: Fifty years of olfactory conditioning of the proboscis extension response in honeybees ⬇️

Knowledgeable individuals lead collective decisions in ants.