Short-term memory in Drosophila melanogaster operant visual learning in the flight
simulator is explored using patterns and colours as a compound stimulus. Presented …

A new conditioning procedure, developed for the operant learning paradigm at the flight
simulator, leads to stronger learning scores in wild-type flies. This procedure produces mean …

By changing the conditioned discrimination paradigm of Quinn et al.(1974) from an
instrumental procedure to a classical (Pavlovian) one, we have demonstrated strong …

Ever since learning and memory have been studied experimentally, the relationship
between operant and classical conditioning has been controversial. Operant conditioning is …

A paradigm for operant conditioning of freely walking single Drosophila flies has been
described previously. A fly can be conditioned to avoid one side of a small test chamber if …

Drosophila larvae are an established model system for studying the mechanisms of innate
and simple forms of learned behavior. They have about 10 times fewer neurons than adult …

An understanding of associative learning is facilitated if it can be analyzed in a simple
animal like the fruit fly Drosophila. Here, we introduce the first visual associative learning …

In a permanently changing environment, it is by no means an easy task to distinguish
potentially important events from negligible ones. Yet, to survive, every animal has to …

Visual learning in Drosophila populations is characterized by a fast rate of acquisition, and
conditioning indices near 0.3 are obtained. Heterogeneity of the populations with respect to …

We have used a genetically tractable model system, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to
study the interdependence between sensory processing and associative processing on …