| nsects canlearn viaoperant and classical conditioning methods.The American cockroach learnsto alter preference forfood-borne odors by pairing olfactory and gustatory stimuli(Watanabe et al., 2003).Cockroachescan be induced toreverse odor preferences after training using aversive saline or appetitive sucrose in association with odors. Ireplicated cockroach odor preference reversal, increased stimulus pair presentations, and demonstratedextended memory retention on both food and non-food borne odors i.e.,narcotics.I also demonstrated the cockroach ability to apply training within a controlled setting by using a location task in which cockroaches found randomly planted narcoticswithin a large space.My resultsprovideafoundation for employing cockroaches for drug detection in order to augment current detection methods. |