Publications by authors named "G A HORRIDGE"

Childhood burns are painful and traumatic and impact the child and their family. For the child, part of the returning to wellness process involves successfully returning to school, a process in which parents play a vital role. This qualitative research aimed to examine how influential parental and other factors were in the return to school process.

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Recognition of a familiar place by the honeybee (Apis mellifera).

J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol

April 2005

Recent work shows that at any one place bees detect a limited variety of simple cues in parallel. At each choice point, they recognize a few cues in the range of positions where the cues occurred during the learning process. There is no need to postulate that they re-assemble the surrounding panorama in memory; only that they retain memories of the coincidences of cues in the expected retinotopic directions.

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Visual discrimination of black bars by honeybees was studied in a Y-choice apparatus with fixed vertical patterns at constant range. The problem is to discover how bees remember different degrees of complexity of the orientation cue. Previous conclusions with parallel gratings and single bars disagree.

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Early measurements of the resolution of horizontal versus vertical gratings were confirmed, with a limit near a period of 2.5 degrees, and the resolution is similar when vertical or horizontal gratings are tested separately against grey. Bees were next trained to discriminate from a distance between gratings at 45 degrees versus 135 degrees, with no green contrast, on targets presented in a vertical plane at a fixed distance.

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Pattern discrimination in the honeybee was studied by training alternately with two different pairs of patterns. Individually marked bees made a forced choice from a fixed distance in a standard Y-choice maze for a reward of sugar solution. Bees were trained, first on one pair of patterns for 10min then on a second pair, and so on, alternately between the two pairs.

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