Investigating positive-valance operant learning in Drosophila melanogaster with a novel
apparatus A Master’s Thesis Presented Page 1 Investigating positive-valance operant learning …

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

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a overview on testing associative learning in
Drosophila. The chapter presents examples of stimulating achievements in the field and …

Operant conditioning is the process by which animals learn to associate their own behaviour
with positive or negative outcomes, biasing future action selection in order to maximise …

Adjusting behavior to changed environmental contingencies is critical for survival, and
reversal learning provides an experimental handle on such cognitive flexibility. Here, we …

The phenotype of learning has long been of interest to behavior geneticists. Tryon (1940),
for example, successfully bred maze-bright and mazedull rats. These rats were extensively …

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

In this thesis I studied psychological aspects in the behaviour of Drosophila, and especially
Drosophila larvae. After an introduction where I present the general scientific context and …

Various learning tasks have been described in Drosophila melanogaster, flies being either
tested in groups or at the individual level. Le Bourg and Buecher (Anim Learn Behav 33: 330 …

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 …