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

The flexibility of behavior is so rich, and its components are so exquisitely interwoven, that
one may be well advised to turn to an isolated behavioral module for study. Gill withdrawal …

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

Orientation preferences for visual patterns can be conditioned in tethered flies (Drosophila
melanogaster) at the flight simulator. In a reversal conditioning procedure using heat as …

For experiments at the torque meter, flies are kept on standard fly medium at 25° C and 60%
humidity with a 12hr light/12hr dark regime. A standardized breeding regime assures proper …

Operant (instrumental) and classical (Pavlovian) conditioning are taught as the simplest
forms of associative learning. Recent research in several invertebrate model systems has …

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 …

Organisms navigating by path integration need to continuously measure their forward
movement and their angular orientation with respect to an external reference. How they do it …

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 …

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