Antennal tactile learning in the honeybee: Effect of nicotinic antagonists on memory dynamics

Our results extend to antennal mechanosensory conditioning the role of the cholinergic system that we had previously described for olfactory conditioning in the honeybee. Moreover, we describe here in this insect a pharmacological dissociation between α-bungarotoxin sensitive long-term memory and α-bungarotoxin insensitive medium-term memory, the last one being affected by mecamylamine.