Context and occasion setting in Drosophila visual learning

Learning and Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 618-628

  Brembs, Björn ^a   Wiener, Jan ^b,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONDITIONING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; VISION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DROSOPHILA; ENVIRONMENT; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MUSHROOM BODIES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33749337757     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.318606     Document Type: Article

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