Authors: Sukant Khurana Mohammed Bin Abubaker Obaid Siddiqi
Publish Date: 2009/10/01
Volume: 34, Issue: 4, Pages: 621-631
Abstract
Drosophila larvae can be trained to avoid odours associated with electric shock We describe here an improved method of aversive conditioning and a procedure for decomposing learning retention curve that enables us to do a quantitative analysis of memory phases short term STM middle term MTM and long term LTM as a function of training cycles The same method of analysis when applied to learning mutants dunce amnesiac rutabaga and radish reveals memory deficits characteristic of the mutant strains
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