How does the brain translate sensory information into complex behaviors? With relatively
small neuronal numbers, readable behavioral outputs, and an unparalleled genetic toolkit …

How information is integrated across different forms of learning is crucial to understanding
higher cognitive functions. Animals form classic or operant associations between cues and …

Neuronally orchestrated muscular movement and locomotion are defining faculties of
multicellular animals. Due to its simple brain and genetic accessibility, the larva of the fruit fly …

Aquatic eco-neurotoxicology is an emerging field that requires new analytical systems to
study the effects of pollutants on animal behaviors. This is especially true if we are to gain …

Organisms have evolved the ability to detect, process, and respond to many different
surrounding stimuli in order to successfully navigate their environments. Sensory …

Highlights•We compared gustatory and visual learning in genotypes of two Drosophila
species.•Only D. sechellia (not D. simulans) learned to avoid gustatory+ aversive …

Genetic determinism of behavior supposes that behaviors are fundamentally defined by
genetics. However, behaviors are also modified by development, environment, and learning …

Organisms have evolved the ability to detect, process, and respond to many different
surrounding stimuli in order to successfully navigate their environments. Sensory …

Genetic determinism of behavior supposes that behaviors are fundamentally defined by
genetics 1–3. However, behaviors are also modified by development 4, environment 5, 6 …

Pavlovian and operant conditioning are forms of associative learning in which humans and
other animals learn to associate events or stimuli that occur in sequence or together. Skinner …