The carrot, not the stick: Appetitive rather than aversive gustatory stimuli support associative olfactory learning in individually assayed Drosophila larvae

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 265-279

  Hendel, Thomas ^a   Michels, Birgit ^a   Neuser, Kirsa ^a   Schipanski, Angela ^a   Kaun, Karla ^b   Sokolowski, Marla B ^b   Marohn, Frank ^a   Michel, René ^a   Heisenberg, Martin ^a   Gerber, Bertram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drosophila larva; Learning; Olfaction; Reinforcement; Taste

Indexed keywords

FUCOSE; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LARVA; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULATION; TASTE;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DROSOPHILA; FUCOSE; LARVA; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; QUININE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SODIUM CHLORIDE; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TASTE;

EID: 20944442103     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-004-0574-8     Document Type: Article

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