Bachelor Blog / #6 playing around

on Monday, September 18th, 2023 12:51 | by Ellie

Since the results I got after training the parental flies looked a bit odd on first sight I decided to take a closer view…

First I excluded some weird animals that either showed a larger preference for one side than avoidance or showed no avoidance two training periods in a row:

Next I compared the behavior of flies that showed avoidance but no learning with the behavior of the remaining flies:

-> Avoidance is almost the same but note the first test period!

Lastly I split the data according to male and female flies. Here is what I got:

-> Looks a bit like there is negative learning in the male flies however I don´t have enough data to be sure…

As an overview here are all the flies (except for the excluded ones) together again:

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Category: Habit formation, Memory, Operant learning, Operant reinforcment, operant self-learning, Spontaneous Behavior, transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

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