In 1897 Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov proved that animals can be trained using associative learning—now, the same might be ...
Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly genetically identical cells. Depending on the organism, these cells arrange ...
A recent study has found that a specific single-celled organism has the capacity for Pavlovian associative learning without a brain or even a neuron.
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Study suggests single-celled organisms can learn without a brain
A growing body of peer-reviewed research is building the case that single-celled organisms, creatures with no brain, no ...
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Brainless single cells just showed a form of learning
Can a creature with one cell and no brain still learn from experience? A growing body of biology suggests that the answer is ...
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