Ep. 8 - Creating Virtual Reality for Bees with Gregory Lafon -

Ep. 8 - Creating Virtual Reality for Bees with Gregory Lafon

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What does it take to create a virtual world for bees that lets us study how they learn? Gregory Lafon is at the forefront of using this technique to study honey bee cognition. In this episode, he discusses the challenges involved in building VR for bees and what we stand to learn. Gregory Lafon is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Toulouse. Read his full paper and see photos of the VR setup here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00630-x Help support the podcast by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/buddhabeeapiary

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