.... To fill this gap, we explored how environmentally relevant urban noise affected the performance of wild-caught, city-living Australian magpies ( Gymnorhina tibicen tyrannica ) on a cognitive task battery including associative and reversal learning, inhibitory control, and spatial memory. Birds were housed...

... disease symptoms, including a proposed role in memory or learning. Intriguingly, PrP C interaction with amyloid beta (Aβ) oligomers at synapses has also linked its function to Alzheimer's disease and dementia in recent years. We set out to test the involvement of PrP C in memory using a disparate animal...

... are required for protein synthesis − and hence for life as we know it. Choosing Drosophila larvae as a case study, we provide the first systematic analysis of both the preference behaviour for, and the learning of, all 20 canonical amino acids in Drosophila . We report that preference for individual amino...

...Timo Saumweber; Carmen Cano; Juliane Klessen; Katharina Eichler; Markus Fendt; Bertram Gerber ABSTRACT The ability to respond to and to learn about mechanosensory disturbance is widespread among animals. Using Drosophila larvae, we describe how the frequency of mechanosensory disturbance (‘buzz...

... olfactory preference of a target individual was neither affected (i) by the level of innate olfactory preference in the surrounding group nor (ii) by the expression of learned olfactory preference in the group. Likewise, learned olfactory preference of a target individual was neither affected (iii...