title: Appetitive learning: memories need calories.
abstract: Recent studies of the way animals learn challenge the idea that food learning relies mainly on how food tastes. Work on Drosophila has now shown that flies must ingest food with a metabolic benefit to form a lasting memory for a learned odour.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. jeri.wright@ncl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Geraldine A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000737:chemistry; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000502:physiology*; D005502:Food; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009753:Nutritive Value; D009812:Odorants
chemical_list: D002241:Carbohydrates