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Mancini, Nino; Hranova, Sia; Weber, Julia; Weiglein, Alice; Schleyer, Michael; Weber, Denise; Thum, Andreas S.; Gerber, Bertram – Learning & Memory, 2019
Adjusting behavior to changed environmental contingencies is critical for survival, and reversal learning provides an experimental handle on such cognitive flexibility. Here, we investigate reversal learning in larval "Drosophila." Using odor-taste associations, we establish olfactory reversal learning in the appetitive and the aversive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Olfactory Perception, Rewards, Punishment
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Weiglein, Alice; Gerstner, Florian; Mancini, Nino; Schleyer, Michael; Gerber, Bertram – Learning & Memory, 2019
Animals of many species are capable of "small data" learning, that is, of learning without repetition. Here we introduce larval "Drosophila melanogaster" as a relatively simple study case for such one-trial learning. Using odor-food associative conditioning, we first show that a sugar that is both sweet and nutritious…
Descriptors: Animals, Associative Learning, Conditioning, Memory
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König, Christian; Khalili, Afshin; Ganesan, Mathangi; Nishu, Amrita P.; Garza, Alejandra P.; Niewalda, Thomas; Gerber, Bertram; Aso, Yoshinori; Yarali, Ayse – Learning & Memory, 2018
Painful events establish opponent memories: cues that precede pain are remembered negatively, whereas cues that follow pain, thus coinciding with relief are recalled positively. How do individual reinforcement-signaling neurons contribute to this "timing-dependent valence-reversal?" We addressed this question using an optogenetic…
Descriptors: Negative Reinforcement, Conditioning, Entomology, Memory
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Andreatta, Marta; Fendt, Markus; Muhlberger, Andreas; Wieser, Matthias J.; Imobersteg, Stefan; Yarali, Ayse; Gerber, Bertram; Pauli, Paul – Learning & Memory, 2012
Two things are worth remembering about an aversive event: What made it happen? What made it cease? If a stimulus precedes an aversive event, it becomes a signal for threat and will later elicit behavior indicating conditioned fear. However, if the stimulus is presented upon cessation of the aversive event, it elicits behavior indicating…
Descriptors: Memory, Fear, Rewards, Stimuli
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Schleyer, Michael; Saumweber, Timo; Nahrendorf, Wiebke; Fischer, Benjamin; von Alpen, Desiree; Pauls, Dennis; Thum, Andreas; Gerber, Bertram – Learning & Memory, 2011
Drosophila larvae combine a numerically simple brain, a correspondingly moderate behavioral complexity, and the availability of a rich toolbox for transgenic manipulation. This makes them attractive as a study case when trying to achieve a circuit-level understanding of behavior organization. From a series of behavioral experiments, we suggest a…
Descriptors: Entomology, Behavior, Expectation, Brain
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Kaun, Karla R.; Hendel, Thomas; Gerber, Bertram; Sokolowski, Marla B. – Learning & Memory, 2007
Animals must be able to find and evaluate food to ensure survival. The ability to associate a cue with the presence of food is advantageous because it allows an animal to quickly identify a situation associated with a good, bad, or even harmful food. Identifying genes underlying these natural learned responses is essential to understanding this…
Descriptors: Entomology, Genetics, Association (Psychology), Conditioning
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Gerber, Bertram; Giurfa, Martin; Guerrieri, Fernando; Lachnit, Harald – Learning & Memory, 2005
Blocking occurs when previous training with a stimulus A reduces (blocks) subsequent learning about a stimulus B, when A and B are trained in compound. The question of whether blocking exists in olfactory conditioning of proboscis extension reflex (PER) in honeybees is under debate. The last published accounts on blocking in honeybees state that…
Descriptors: Perception, Stimuli, Conditioning, Control Groups