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Abstract

A total of 18 associative learning/memory tests have been applied toDrosophila melanogasterflies lacking mushroom bodies. Only in paradigms involving chemosensory cues as conditioned stimuli have flies been found to be compromised by a block in the mushroom body pathway. Among the learning tasks not requiring these structures are a case of motor learning (yaw torque/heat), a test of the fly’s spatial orientation in total darkness, conditioned courtship suppression by mated females, and nine different examples of visual learning. The latter used the reinforcers of heat, visual oscillations, mechanical shaking, or sucrose, and as conditioned stimuli, color, intensity contrast, as well as stationary and moving visual patterns. No forms of consolidated memory have been tested in mushroom body-less flies. With respect to short-term memory the mushroom bodies ofDrosophilaare specially required for chemosensory learning tasks, but not for associative learning and memory in general.

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@article{Wolf_1998, title={DrosophilaMushroom Bodies Are Dispensable for Visual, Tactile, and Motor Learning}, volume={5}, ISSN={1549-5485}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.5.1.166}, DOI={10.1101/lm.5.1.166}, number={1}, journal={Learning & Memory}, publisher={Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}, author={Wolf, Reinhard and Wittig, Tobias and Liu, Li and Wustmann, Gerold and Eyding, Dirk and Heisenberg, Martin}, year={1998}, month=may, pages={166–178} }