In 1897 Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov proved that animals can be trained using associative learning—now, the same might be ...
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.
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 ...
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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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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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