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No evidence is found that the bee can form a concept of ‘triangularity’ as suggested by MAZOCHIN-PORSHNYAKOV. The amount of contour per unit area of a shape appears to be of overwhelming importance in the ability of the bee to make discriminations, as well as in its spontaneous preference for certain shapes. Bees can be made to utilize other parameters by training along a decreasing continuum of contour per unit area. Thus there may be attentional mechanisms in bees similar to those found in vertebrates.
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Anderson, A. (1972). The Ability of Honey Bees to Generalise Visual Stimuli. In: Wehner, R. (eds) Information Processing in the Visual Systems of Anthropods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65477-0_30
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