An Experiment in Olfactory Conditioning in Drosophila Guttifera

An Experiment in Olfactory Conditioning in Drosophila Guttifera.

Olfactory trace conditioning in Drosophila.

The neural representation of a sensory stimulus evolves with time, and animals keep that representation even after stimulus cessation (i.e., a stimulus "trace"). To contrast the memories of an odor and an odor trace, we here establish a rigorous trace conditioning paradigm in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. We modify the olfactory associative learning paradigm, in which the odor and ele...

SnapShot: Olfactory Classical Conditioning of Drosophila

This SnapShot summarizes current knowledge about the molecules and circuitry that mediate olfactory memory formation in Drosophila, with emphasis on neural circuits carrying the learned sensory information; the molecular mechanisms for acquisition, memory storage, and forgetting; and the output pathways for memory expression. To view this SnapShot, open or download the PDF.

The Role of Dopamine in Drosophila Larval Classical Olfactory Conditioning

Learning and memory is not an attribute of higher animals. Even Drosophila larvae are able to form and recall an association of a given odor with an aversive or appetitive gustatory reinforcer. As the Drosophila larva has turned into a particularly simple model for studying odor processing, a detailed neuronal and functional map of the olfactory pathway is available up to the third order neuron...

Neural circuits mediating aversive olfactory conditioning in Drosophila