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SELECT, MEMORIZE, ACCESS. "Hence to meet these criteria, a plant must be able to select relevant things to memorize and actively access those memories to modify the timing, quality or quantity of its behavioral response when exposed to external stimuli." https://lnkd.in/dH68RKn View in LinkedIn

HABITUATION. "Often considered to be the simplest form of learning, habituation is an adaptive process that enables an organism to focus on the important information in its environment, while filtering out stimuli or events that, over time, have repeatedly proven to be irrelevant and innocuous." https://lnkd.in/dH68RKn View in LinkedIn

MIMOSA HABITUATION. "This not only excludes the possibility that this is simply rapid re-habituation, it demonstrates an increase in the tendency of individuals to take a specific action in response to a known stimulus based on prior learning." https://lnkd.in/dH68RKn View in LinkedIn

THE MIMOSA DROP STUDIES. "In Mimosa pudica—the sensitive plant—the defensive leaf-folding behaviour in response to repeated physical disturbance exhibits clear habituation, suggesting some elementary form of learning. Astonishingly, Mimosa can display the learned response even when left undisturbed in a more favourable environment for a month. This relatively long-lasting learned behavioural change as a result of previous experience matches the persistence of habituation effects observed in many animals." https://lnkd.in/dH68RKn View in LinkedIn

Calcite alabaster from the mediaeval period came from Nottingham UK or Bueda Spain; the first source is exhausted, the second damaged by dynamite mining. The extraordinary ivory-like translucence and the ability to hold detail is what distinguishes this remarkable material, exemplified in thousands of examples. View in LinkedIn

CALCIUM MEMORY TRACES. "Specifically, intracellular Ca ([Ca2+]i) signals are known to regulate a large variety of functions in all biological organisms, including memory processing and formation of memory imprints of past events ranging from minutes to generations through gene expression." https://lnkd.in/dH68RKn View in LinkedIn

MEMORY ANALOGUES. "Plants may lack brains and neural tissues but they do possess a sophisticated Ca-signalling network in their cells similar to those underlying memory processes in animals." https://lnkd.in/dH68RKn View in LinkedIn

RESISTANCE TO NEW IDEAS. "Gagliano said that her mimosa paper had been rejected by ten journals: “None of the reviewers had problems with the data.” Instead, they balked at the language she used to describe the data." https://lnkd.in/dvFaNgd View in LinkedIn