Conditioning with compound stimuli in Drosophila melanogaster in the flight simulator.

@article{citeulike:877192, abstract = {Short-term memory in Drosophila melanogaster operant visual learning in the flight simulator is explored using patterns and colours as a compound stimulus. Presented together during training, the two stimuli accrue the same associative strength whether or not a prior training phase rendered one of the two stimuli a stronger predictor for the reinforcer than the other (no blocking). This result adds Drosophila to the list of other invertebrates that do not exhibit the robust vertebrate blocking phenomenon. Other forms of higher-order learning, however, were detected: a solid sensory preconditioning and a small second-order conditioning effect imply that associations between the two stimuli can be formed, even if the compound is not reinforced.}, address = {Lehrstuhl Genetik und Neurobiologie, Biozentrum, W\"{u}rzburg, Germany. heisenberg@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de}, author = {Brembs, B. and Heisenberg, M. }, citeulike-article-id = {877192}, issn = {0022-0949}, journal = {J Exp Biol}, keywords = {behavior, classical, condijtioning, conditioning, drosophila, learning, memory, neurobiology, neuroscience, operant, pavlovian}, month = {August}, number = {Pt 16}, pages = {2849--2859}, posted-at = {2006-09-29 08:00:07}, priority = {0}, title = {Conditioning with compound stimuli in Drosophila melanogaster in the flight simulator.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11683440}, volume = {204}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:877192 L3 - citeulike-article-id:877192 TI - Conditioning with compound stimuli in Drosophila melanogaster in the flight simulator. JF - J Exp Biol VL - 204 IS - Pt 16 SP - 2849 EP - 2859 AD - Lehrstuhl Genetik und Neurobiologie, Biozentrum, Würzburg, Germany. heisenberg@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de SN - 0022-0949 N2 - Short-term memory in Drosophila melanogaster operant visual learning in the flight simulator is explored using patterns and colours as a compound stimulus. Presented together during training, the two stimuli accrue the same associative strength whether or not a prior training phase rendered one of the two stimuli a stronger predictor for the reinforcer than the other (no blocking). This result adds Drosophila to the list of other invertebrates that do not exhibit the robust vertebrate blocking phenomenon. Other forms of higher-order learning, however, were detected: a solid sensory preconditioning and a small second-order conditioning effect imply that associations between the two stimuli can be formed, even if the compound is not reinforced. KW - behavior KW - classical KW - condijtioning KW - conditioning KW - drosophila KW - learning KW - memory KW - neurobiology KW - neuroscience KW - operant KW - pavlovian AU - Brembs, B AU - Heisenberg, M PY - 2001/08// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11683440 ER -