LEARNING WITHOUT PERFORMANCE IN PKC-DEFICIENT DROSOPHILA

The performance of a task is often assumed to be a prerequisite for th e learning of many tasks, including the associative conditioning of co urtship in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Transgenic flies sp ecifically inhibited for the enzyme protein kinase C dissociate the ac quisition of learning and memory from performance of the task. They fa il to show immediate suppression of courtship but nonetheless develop normal memory of it.