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| Humans, monkeys and flies all learn the same way |
| Or at least this is what the headlines at Slashdot, ScienceDaily and PhysOrg purport. What the new study (ok, it's actually a month old) shows is that what is called the "generation effect" in humans can also be found in...[more] |
| psychology learning generation effect monkeys operant |
| Posted on Wednesday 05 September 2007 - 14:28:57 |
| Redundancy and parallelism in learning and memory |
| Josh Dubnau kicked off the 'redundancy session' with a very spirited talk presenting a systemic view of multiple memory systems in multiple neural populations of classical olfactory conditioning in Drosophila. After a wo...[more] |
| redundancy learning memory courtship olfactory conditioning |
| Posted on Tuesday 17 May 2011 - 21:38:23 |
| ...and now for some fruit fly learning |
| Whoda thunk that one of my most esteemed colleagues is also a movie star?  ...[more] |
| Drosophila learning t-maze dubnau training memory |
| Posted on Saturday 25 February 2012 - 13:49:23 |
| Are things starting to really take off now? |
| The last two weeks have been fantastic! My latest experiments tell me that operant conditioning and classical conditioning actually can be dissociated at the genetic level. I have mutants that are defective in classical,...[more] |
| operant conditioning learning genes students Caipirinha |
| Posted on Monday 17 March 2008 - 19:02:35 |
| Intrinsic plasticity: the 'other' learning mechanism |
 A quote from Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel in the December 11 issue of Science reminded me of a short article by David Glanzman covering a remarkable paper on pan-neuronal (aka 'intrinsic') plasticity and its involvement in...[more] |
| intrinsic plasticity synaptic plasticity learning operant Byrne Mozzachiodi |
| Posted on Sunday 27 December 2009 - 17:15:04 |
| Cognitive Daily: Operant conditioning at the NC Zoo |
| Dave Munger over at Cognitive Daily has a great post on how zoos use operant conditioning for the welfare of their animals. They use operant conditioning on basically all mammals, maybe even most vertebrates there, for e...[more] |
| operant conditioning operant learning zoo |
| Posted on Tuesday 23 September 2008 - 12:48:16 |
| Great review on sea slug learning |
| There's a great new article out in the journal Learning & Memory. It reviews the recent developments in the field of conditioning the feeding behavior of the sea slug Aplysia. You can see an example of what this beha...[more] |
| paper Aplysia learning |
| Posted on Friday 01 December 2006 - 19:17:12 |
| The naked science of fruit fly and snail learning |
| The Naked Sientists have published my little article on fruit fly and snail learning: Flies are creatures of habit. This is my first popular science article ever and I love that it is with the Naked Scientists, because I...[more] |
| Naked Scientsts fruit fly learning learning habit |
| Posted on Friday 10 October 2008 - 18:43:14 |
| Classical conditioning promotes sperm-competition in quail |
| This is what researchers from the Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin report in the journal Psychological Science (requires subscription, PubMed). And they do a pretty good job at demonstrating it, to...[more] |
| sperm competition evolution learning fitness offspring paternity |
| Posted on Wednesday 05 September 2007 - 13:59:53 |
| After 40 years of research, there may be a reason why Aplysia can learn |
| I'm currently in sunny southern California for some experiments at UCSD. This is the place where one can find the marine snail Aplysia in its natural habitat. As I've been working with Aplysia for about ten years now, I...[more] |
| aplysia lobster sensitization learning |
| Posted on Thursday 19 August 2010 - 07:11:08 |