Gil Mariana
Free University of Berlin; Department of Biology/Chemistry/Pharmacy; Institute of Biology/Neurobiology; Berlin, Germany.
Commun Integr Biol. 2010 Mar;3(2):95-100. doi: 10.4161/cib.3.2.10621.
The study of expectations of reward helps to understand rules controlling goal-directed behavior as well as decision making and planning. I shall review a series of recent studies focusing on how the food gathering behavior of honeybees depends upon reward expectations. These studies document that free-flying honeybees develop long-term expectations of reward and use them to regulate their investment of energy/time during foraging. Also, they present a laboratory procedure suitable for analysis of neural substrates of reward expectations in the honeybee brain. I discuss these findings in the context of individual and collective foraging, on the one hand, and neurobiology of learning and memory of reward.
对奖励期望的研究有助于理解控制目标导向行为以及决策和规划的规则。我将回顾一系列近期研究,这些研究聚焦于蜜蜂的食物采集行为如何依赖于奖励期望。这些研究表明,自由飞行的蜜蜂会形成对奖励的长期期望,并利用它们来调节觅食过程中的能量/时间投入。此外,它们还提出了一种适用于分析蜜蜂大脑中奖励期望神经基质的实验室程序。一方面,我将在个体和集体觅食的背景下讨论这些发现,另一方面,也会在奖励学习和记忆的神经生物学背景下进行讨论。