Learning in the fly
Michel B. C. Sokolowski and Gérald Disma
Université de Picardie - Jules Verne, France

Flies (Phormia terrae novae) were trained to enter a cylinder to obtain small amounts of sugar solution. After sessions without reinforcement, we used a continuous reinforcement schedule. We show that response rates increase with reinforcement. The observed behaviour is not the result of an unconditional effect of sugar consumption. However, because of some procedural details, it is difficult to be sure we obtained some kind of operant behaviour.

Keywords: flies, learning, reinforcement, extinction



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