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ReviewLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2015

Outcome learning, outcome expectations, and intentionality in Drosophila.

Martin Heisenberg

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Review in Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The exploration of consciousness in insects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  2. A heuristic underlies the search for relief in Drosophila melanogaster.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2022
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  4. Perceptual rivalry across animal species.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2020
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  5. Place learning overrides innate behaviors inLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2018
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  8. Neural control and precision of flight muscle activation in Drosophila.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Martin HeisenbergRudolf Virchow Research Center, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg D-97080, Germany heisenberg@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An animal generates behavioral actions because of the effects of these actions in the future. Occasionally, the animal may generate an action in response to a certain event or situation. If the outcome of the action is adaptive, the animal may keep this stimulus-response link in its behavioral repertoire, in case the event or situation occurs again. If a responsive action is innate but the outcome happens to be less adaptive than it had been before, the link may be loosened. This adjustment of outcome expectations involves a particular kind of learning, which will be called "outcome learning." The present article discusses several examples of outcome learning in Drosophila. Learning and memory are intensely studied in flies, but the focus is on classical conditioning. Outcome learning, a particular form of operant learning, is of special significance, because it modulates outcome expectations that are operational components of action selection and intentionality.

Indexed as

Conditioning, OperantDrosophilaIntentionAnimalsBehavior, AnimalPsychomotor Performance

Identifiers

PMID25979991
PMCPMC4436651

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