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Comparative and Experimental Approaches to Understanding Insect Learning

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Insect Learning

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The comparative approach has repeatedly been advocated as an important tool for investigating learning in animals. This suggestion has emanated primarily from comparative psychologists studying learning in vertebrates (Bitterman, 1965;Johnston, 1982;Domjan and Galef, 1983; Kalat, 1985; Kamil and Clements, 1990) but also more recently from evolutionary biologists studying insects (Menzel, 1985; Papaj and Prokopy, 1989; Lewis and Lipani, 1990). Nevertheless, there have been few attempts to apply a comparative approach to testing hypotheses concerning the physiology, ontogeny, function, or evolution of learning in insects, and, as will be reviewed below, no comparative study reported to date is sufficiently rigorous statistically to provide a strong insight into insect learning. Why?

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    Daniel R. Papaj

  2. Department of Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    Alcinda C. Lewis

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Rosenheim, J.A. (1993). Comparative and Experimental Approaches to Understanding Insect Learning. In: Papaj, D.R., Lewis, A.C. (eds) Insect Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2814-2_11

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