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BS 206: Paco Calvo explores Plant Intelligence

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Controversial Evidence That Plants Learn

There is very little evidence that points towards the possibility that plants are able to learn. If you go to sophisticated forms of learning like associative learning there is experimental papers. One paper that hasn't been replicated as of today this is a study performed by my colleague boninga ralliano in back in 2016. The jury is still out right we'll find out soon in a year or so we'll have the beta be able to say what we have on the bench but to me what's important is that plans might be able to learn even if the evidence was negative because that simply might show type of experimental design was in appropriate wasn't the type of design that could throw light up on this sentiment

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