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finding:planarian-memory-persistence-across-head-regenerationPlanarian memory persistence across head regeneration
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extracted_from(2023) · Levin, Michael
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- Gap junctions and bioelectric signals encode body-plan and memory patterns across radical biological transformation.
- Transient bioelectric manipulation persistently alters head number and patterning despite wild-type genetics in planaria.
- Investigates how memory persists across decapitation and brain regeneration in planarians, questioning substrate of consciousness.
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- Morphogenetic MemorysupportsBioelectric pattern memory encoding target morphologies; can be modified by experience and persists across regeneration cycles; functional analog of behavioral memory.
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- Empirical finding that planaria tail fragments retain learned information and imprint memories onto newly regenerated brains.
- Cited empirical result supporting persistence of self/memory through structural regeneration.
- Key evidence that morphogenetic memories are stored in bioelectric circuits and are rewritable via transient voltage state modifications; memory persists across multiple regeneration cycles.
- Evidence that memory and anatomical form are tightly linked; information processing enables integration of behavioral and morphological change.
- Planarians derived from tail fragments of trained worms retain original information after brain regenerationfinding0.816Behavioral memories in planaria persist through complete brain regeneration, indicating movement of memory across tissues.
- Worms trained before decapitation re-acquire the memory after regenerating a new brain, showing transfer of information across tissues.