Publications  of Fred C. Dyer



Dyer, F.C. 2002. When it pays to waggle. Nature 419: 885-886. PDF

Wei, C.A., S. L. Rafalko, and F.C. Dyer. 2002. Deciding to learn: modulation of learning flights in honeybees, Apis mellifera. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 188: 725-737. PDF

Dyer, F.C. 2002. Biology of the dance language. Annual Review of Entomology 47: 917-949. PDF

Dyer, F.C., M. Gill, and J. Sharbowski. 2002. Motivation and vector navigation in honey bees. Naturwissenschaften 89: 262-264. PDF

Henderson, J. M., R. Falk, S.  Minut, F.C. Dyer, and S. Mahadevan. (2001). Gaze control for face learning and recognition in humans and machines. In: From fragments to objects: Segmentation processes in vision (Ed. By T. Shipley and P. Kellman). New York: Elsevier. PDF

Minut, S., S. Mahadevan, J.M. Henderson, and F.C. Dyer. 2000. Face recognition using foveal vision. In: Biologically motivated computer vision (Ed. by S-W. Lee, H. H. Bulthoff, & T. Poggio), pp. 424-433. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Budzynski, C.A., F. C. Dyer, and V.P. Bingman. 2000. Partial experience with the sun's arc is sufficient for all day sun compass orientation in homing pigeons, Columba livia.  Journal of Experimental Biology 203: 2341-2348.

Dyer, F. C.  2000.  Individual cognition and group movement:  insights from social insects.  In:  Group Movement in Social Primates and Other Animals:  Patterns, Processes, and Cognitive Implications. (Ed. by P. Garber and S. Boinski).  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Capaldi, E. A., and F. C. Dyer.  1999.  Role of orientation flights on homing performance in honey bees.  Journal of Experimental Biology 202:  1655-1666.

Dyer, F. C.  1998.  Cognitive ecology of navigation.  In:  Cognitive Ecology (Ed. by R. Dukas), pp. 201-260.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press..

Dyer, F. C.  1998.  Spatial cognition:  lessons from central-place foraging insects.  In:  A Synthetic Approach to Studying Animal Cognition (Ed. by I. Pepperberg, A. Kamil, and R. Balda), pp. 119-154.  London:  Academic Press.

Dyer, F. C.  1997.  The seat of insect learning?  Natural History 106(8):  58-59.

Dyer, F. C.  1997.  Birds do it, bees do it, even turtles in the sea do it.  Natural History 106(8):   60-52.

Dyer, F. C.  1996.  Spatial memory and navigation by honeybees on the scale of the foraging range.  Journal of Experimental Biology 199:  147-154.

 Dyer, F.C., J.A. Brockmann.  1996.  Orientation, sensory processes, and communication.  In:  Foundations of Animal Behavior  (Ed. by L.D. Houck and L.C. Drickamer).  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Dyer, F. C., J. A. Dickinson.  1996.  Sun-compass learning in insects:  representation in a simple mind.  Current Directions in Psychological Science 5: 67-72.

Dickinson, J. A., F. C. Dyer.  1996.  How insects learn about the sun's course:  alternative modeling approaches.  In: From Animals to Animats 4 (Ed. P. Maes, M. J. Mataric, J.-A. Meyer, J. Pollack and S. W. Wilson), pp. 193-203.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.

Capaldi, E.A., F.C. Dyer.  1995.  Landmarks and dance orientation in Apis melliferaNaturwissenschaften 82 : 245-247.

Dyer, F.C., T.D. Seeley.   1994.  Colony migration in the tropical honey bee Apis dorsata  F. (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Insectes Sociaux 41 :  129-140.

Dyer, F.C.  1994.  Spatial cognition and navigation in insects.   In:  Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology  (Ed. by L. A. Real), pp. 66-98.  Chicago:   University of Chicago Press.

Dyer, F.C., J.A. Dickinson.  1994.  Development of sun compensation by honeybees:  How partially experienced bees estimate the sun's course. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 91 :  4471-4474.

Dyer, F.C., B.H. Smith.  1994.  Review of:  Anatomy of a Controversy , by A.M. Wenner and P.G. Wells.  Animal Behaviour 47 : 1242-1244.

Dyer, F.C.   1993a.   How honey bees find familiar feeding sites after changing nesting sites with a swarm.  Animal Behaviour 46 :  813-816.

Dyer, F.C.  1993b.  Large-scale spatial memory and navigation in honey bees.  In:  Orientation and Navigation:  Birds, Humans, and Other Animals  (Proceedings of the 1993 Conference of the Royal Institute of Navigation).  London:  The Royal Institute of Navigation.

Dyer, F.C., N.A. Berry, A.S. Richard.   1993.  Honey bee spatial memory:  use of route-based memories after displacement. Animal Behaviour 45 :  1028-1030.

Robinson, G.E., F.C. Dyer.   1993.  Plasticity of spatial memory in honey bees:  reorientation following colony fission. Animal Behaviour 46 :  311-320. Dyer, F.C.  1991a.  Honey bees acquire route-based memories but not cognitive maps in a familiar landscape.  Animal Behaviour 41 :  239-246.

Dyer, F.C.  1991b.  Comparative studies of dance communication:  analysis of phylogeny and function.  In:  Diversity in the Genus Apis   (Ed. by D.R. Smith), pp. 177-198.  Boulder:  Westview Press.

Dyer, F.C.  1991c.  Coadaptation of colony design and worker performance in honey bees.  In:  Diversity in the Genus Apis  (Ed. by D.R. Smith) pp. 213-245.  Boulder:  Westview Press.

Dyer, F.C., T.D. Seeley.   1991a.  Dance dialects and foraging range in three Asian honey bee species.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 28 :  227-233.

Dyer, F.C., T.D. Seeley.  1991b.  Nesting behavior and the evolution of worker tempo in four honey bee species.  Ecology 72 :  156-170.

Dyer, F.C.  1990a.  Comparative analyses of the honey bee dance language:  phylogeny, function, mechanism.  In: Social Insects and the Environment  (Ed. by G.K. Veeresh, B. Mallik, and C.A. Viraktamath) , pp. 99-100.  New Delhi:  Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.

Dyer, F.C.  1990b.  How honey bees learn about a landscape.  In: Social Insects and the Environment  (Ed. by G.K. Veeresh, B. Mallik, and C.A. Viraktamath) , pp. 198-199.  New Delhi:  Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.

Dyer, F.C., T.D. Seeley.  1989a.  Orientation and foraging in honey bees.  In: Insect Flight  (Ed. by G. Goldsworthy and C. Wheeler), pp. 205-30.  Fort Lauderdale: CRC Press.

Dyer, F.C., T.D. Seeley.  1989b.  On the evolution of the dance language. The American Naturalist 133 :  580-90.

Dyer, F.C.  1987a.  Memory and sun compensation by honey bees. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 160 :  621-33.

Dyer, F.C.  1987b.  New perspectives on the dance orientation of the Asian honey bees.  In:  Neurobiology and Behavior in Honey Bees   (Ed. by R. Menzel and A. Mercer), pp. 54-65.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag.

Dyer, F.C., T.D. Seeley.  1987.  Interspecific comparisons of endothermy in honey bees (Apis):  Deviations from the expected size-related patterns.  Journal of Experimental Biology 127 : 1-26.

Dyer, F.C.  1985a.  Mechanisms of dance orientation in the Asian honey bee Apis floreaJournal of Comparative Physiology A 152  :  183-98.

Dyer, F.C.  1985b. Nocturnal orientation by the Asian honey bee Apis dorsataAnimal Behavior 33 :  769-74.

Gould, J.L., F.C. Dyer, and W.F. Towne.  1985.  Recent progress in the study of the dance language.  Fortschritte der Zoologie 31 : 141-61.

Dyer, F.C., J.L. Gould. 1983. Honey bee navigation. American Scientist 71 : 587-97.

Dyer, F.C., J.L. Gould. 1981. Honey bee orientation:  a backup system for cloudy days.  Science 214 :  1041-42.



GOTO VITA

GOTO HOME