Crossmodal Interactions Between Olfactory and Visual Learning in Drosophila Export

@article{citeulike:3131340, abstract = {Different modalities of sensation interact in a synergistic or antagonistic manner during sensory perception, but whether there is also interaction during memory acquisition is largely unknown. In Drosophila reinforcement learning, we found that conditioning with concurrent visual and olfactory cues reduced the threshold for unimodal memory retrieval. Furthermore, bimodal preconditioning followed by unimodal conditioning with either a visual or olfactory cue led to crossmodal memory transfer. Crossmodal memory acquisition in Drosophila may contribute significantly to learning in a natural environment. 10.1126/science.1111280}, author = {Guo, Jianzeng and Guo, Aike}, citeulike-article-id = {3131340}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1111280}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/309/5732/307}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16002621}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16002621}, day = {8}, doi = {10.1126/science.1111280}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {conditioning, drosophila, memory, olfactory, reinforcement\_learning, visual}, month = {July}, number = {5732}, pages = {307--310}, posted-at = {2008-10-22 12:35:52}, priority = {0}, title = {Crossmodal Interactions Between Olfactory and Visual Learning in Drosophila}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1111280}, volume = {309}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3131340 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3131340 N2 - Different modalities of sensation interact in a synergistic or antagonistic manner during sensory perception, but whether there is also interaction during memory acquisition is largely unknown. In Drosophila reinforcement learning, we found that conditioning with concurrent visual and olfactory cues reduced the threshold for unimodal memory retrieval. Furthermore, bimodal preconditioning followed by unimodal conditioning with either a visual or olfactory cue led to crossmodal memory transfer. Crossmodal memory acquisition in Drosophila may contribute significantly to learning in a natural environment. 10.1126/science.1111280 IS - 5732 JF - Science EP - 310 TI - Crossmodal Interactions Between Olfactory and Visual Learning in Drosophila VL - 309 SP - 307 KW - conditioning KW - drosophila KW - memory KW - olfactory KW - reinforcement_learning KW - visual AU - Guo, Jianzeng AU - Guo, Aike PY - 2005/07/08/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1111280 ER -