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| complex learning in fruit flies |
| Sadiepete (not a scientist) asked me some questions after having read our recent paper on context and occasion setting in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). I sat down and answered some of them by email. I think it's...[more] |
| drosophila paper behavior learning context occasion setting mushroom-bodies |
| Posted on Thursday 26 October 2006 - 08:44:32 |
| Dopamine everywhere |
| The third session here at the Janelia Farm Conference “Learning and Memory: A Synthesis of Flies and Honeybees” covered the action of dopamine. Hiromu Tanimoto started with his experiments trying to identify the dopami...[more] |
| drosophila dopamine aversive learning memory ARM oscillations spontaneous activity |
| Posted on Monday 16 May 2011 - 21:32:47 |
| No brain is too small for a memory |
 I'm trying to catch up with my backlog of research news (~600 unread messages) and what do you know, the first one is already worth blogging about! Researchers from the Brooklyn College in New York ...[more] |
| classical conditioning cephalopods invertebrates learning memory neuroscience brain |
| Posted on Friday 24 October 2008 - 18:24:24 |
| Insect neurobiology symposium in Munich, session 7 |
| The seventh session started with the 24th talk of this meeting by Mirjam Appel. She told us about a mutant screen for forward and backward conditioning in aversive olfactory conditioning in Drosophila. I this setup, an e...[more] |
| dopamine drosophila odor learning |
| Posted on Saturday 12 December 2009 - 18:08:00 |
| Fly psychology on Nature Precedings |
| I've just resubmitted (to PLoS Biology) my latest manuscript on how operant and classical components interact to accomplish the generation effect in flies and other animals. I've received plenty of constructive criticism...[more] |
| drosophila nature precedings psychology learning memory generation effect |
| Posted on Wednesday 05 September 2007 - 16:06:36 |
| Prep. #14: if only all experiments worked like this one |
| This was such a wonderful preparation. First, it took me only 2.5h for the dissection instead of the usual 3. Then, I was quickly able to adjust the stimulations such that the isolated leech nervous system would respond ...[more] |
| leech operant nervous system neuroscience learning decision-making |
| Posted on Tuesday 21 September 2010 - 01:40:14 |
| Final day at UCSD: data crunch |
| After catching my last few waves this morning, I'm now sitting at the computer evaluating the last weeks of research in the isolated leech nervous system. The main focus of the project was to do some pilot experiments ...[more] |
| leech operant nervous system neuroscience learning decision-making |
| Posted on Friday 24 September 2010 - 22:19:31 |
| Modulating decision-making in the isolated leech nerve-chord |
| For the last two weeks I've been trying to develop an operant learning paradigm for isolated leech nervous systems. To do these experiments I traveled to visit Bill Kristan's lab at UCSD. After he showed me how to dissec...[more] |
| leech operant nervous system neuroscience learning decision-making |
| Posted on Saturday 04 September 2010 - 02:45:00 |
| Real conferences and spam-ferences |
| I've recently been invited to ...[more] |
| janelia honey bee fly memory learning meeting |
| Posted on Monday 16 May 2011 - 03:27:08 |
| Prep #5: making progress in leech operant conditioning, one preparation at a time |
Let's see how long I can manage to blog each day about each preparation  Slowly but steadily I'm making progress in my attempts to find out if one can get isolated leech nervous systems to learn. Here are the problems I'...[more] |
| leech operant nervous system neuroscience learning decision-making |
| Posted on Tuesday 07 September 2010 - 02:12:53 |