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One of the major evolutionary trends in the Insecta has resulted in the increase and size and complexity of the mushroom bodies (corpora pedunculata) in the brains of social hymenoptera. Since ants and bees are known to learn well, it seems reasonable to suppose that these lobes are involved. In a previous study (Vowles, 1964a) it was shown that, in wood ants which had been trained in an olfactory task, lesions within the mushroom bodies did not disrupt performance, but severing tracts between the antennal lobes and the alpha lobes (Vowles, 1955) of the mushroom bodies caused failure to recognize the olfactory cues. Unilateral lesions disrupted performance only if the contralateral antenna had been amputated.
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Vowles, D.M. (1967). Interocular Transfer, Brain Lesions, and Maze Learning in the Wood Ant, Formica rufa . In: Corning, W.C., Ratner, S.C. (eds) Chemistry of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6565-3_26
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