Insects utilize a myriad of sensory signals to navigate natural environments. They show remarkable abilities to learn these cues and form memories associated with them. This learned information is essential to make crucial decisions at a later point in time. Conventional conditioning experiments have been used in the past to observe associative learning abilities of vinegar flies (Drosophila melanogaster) using individual sensory modalities. In our work, we established a T-maze choice assay that combines the presentation of both visual and olfactory stimuli in an aversive conditioning paradigm to study the effect of bimodal integration on learning performance. We show that the presence of an additional modality during training aids in better learning of visual and olfactory stimuli and in the retention of these memories. The results from these behavioural experiments provide evidence for the presence of neuronal substrates that can integrate sensory information and use that to form associations. Further physiological investigation in the higher brain regions such as the mushroom bodies and the lateral horn can reveal the identities of these neurons that are involved in multimodal information processing. This project is funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG).