Lehrer M, Srinivasan M V
Zoologisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Switzerland.
Vision Res. 1994 Feb;34(4):511-6. doi: 10.1016/0042-6989(94)90164-3.
In a pattern discrimination task, bees tend to fly along the contours contained in the patterns, as revealed by an earlier study. As opposed to this, in a task involving the detection of an edge between two striped surfaces placed at two different ranges, the bees avoid contour-following, as revealed by the present study. The study shows that, in the latter task, the bees learn to suppress the otherwise innate contour-following behaviour and adopt a flight strategy that provides them with the motion parallax cues necessary to cope with this task. Thus, the animal's active behaviour determines the type of visual information to be extracted from the environment.
在一项模式辨别任务中，正如早期研究所揭示的，蜜蜂倾向于沿着图案中包含的轮廓飞行。与此相反，在一项涉及检测放置在两个不同距离的两个条纹表面之间边缘的任务中，正如本研究所揭示的，蜜蜂会避免沿着轮廓飞行。该研究表明，在后者的任务中，蜜蜂学会抑制原本与生俱来的沿着轮廓飞行的行为，并采用一种飞行策略，为它们提供应对此任务所需的运动视差线索。因此，动物的主动行为决定了从环境中提取的视觉信息的类型。
