Learning performance of normal and mutant drosophila after repeated conditioning trials with discrete stimuli

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2944-2953

  Beck, C D O ^a   Schroeder, Bradley ^a   Davis, Ronald L ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Drosophila; Learning mutant; Massed training; Olfactory conditioning; Spaced training

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRIC SHOCK; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SMELLING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

EID: 0034655772     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-08-02944.2000     Document Type: Article

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