Diffusion Science radio: Horizontal Memory Transfer

Horizontal Memory Transfer


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The bizarre story of horizontal memory transfer in worms by Ian Woolf,
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a bunch of roundworms with their eyes looking as if drawn on
Annals of Improbable Research


The effects of regeneration upon retention of a conditioned response in the planarian.
The Worm Runners Digest
Planaria: Interspecific transfer of a conditionability factor through cannibalism
An automated training paradigm reveals long-term memory in planarians and its persistence through head regeneration
Memory in the flesh: A radical 1950s scientist suggested memories could survive outside the brain — and he may have been right
Memory Transferred between Snails, Challenging Standard Theory of How the Brain Remembers
The Cannibalistic Worm Controversy
Study uncovers new mechanism for memory transfer between individual roundworms


September 13, 2021
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