# Set up for virtual reality in BEES - Screen Holder

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #444444;">In the team “Insect Cognitive Neuroethology (ICON)“ at the IBPS, we are interested in assessing visual learning in Apis mellifera (honeybees) under virtual reality conditions. </span>

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #444444;">The current 3D project is a part of the set-up </span>

[![image.png](https://wiki.fablab.sorbonne-universite.fr/BookStack/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/scaled-1680-/pSwimage.png)](https://wiki.fablab.sorbonne-universite.fr/BookStack/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/pSwimage.png)

For more information, take a look at these publications:

<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">Geng, H., Lafon, G., Avarguès-Weber, A. et al. </span>Visual learning in a virtual reality environment upregulates immediate early gene expression in the mushroom bodies of honey bees. Commun Biol 5, 130 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03075-8

Lafon, G., Howard, S.R., Paffhausen, B.H. et al. Motion cues from the background influence associative color learning of honey bees in a virtual-reality scenario. Sci Rep 11, 21127 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00630-x