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Memory Without a Brain: How a Single Cell Slime Mold Makes Smart Decisions – SciTechDaily

How a single cell slime mold makes smart decisions without a central nervous system. Having a memory of past events enables us to make smarter decisions about the…

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The slime mold Physarum polycephalum consists of a single biological cell. Microinjection allows to mark the flow in Physarum in color. Credit: Bjoern Kscheschinski / MPIDS
How a single cell slime mold makes smart decisions without a central nervous system.
Having a memory of past events enables us to make smarter decisions about the future. Researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now identified how the…

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