Flatworms lose their heads but not their memories: Study finds memories stored outside the brain
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 08:30
in Health & Medicine
(Phys.org) —Tufts University biologists using new, automated training and testing techniques have found that planarian flatworms store memory outside their brains and, if their heads are removed, can apparently imprint these memories on their new brains during regeneration.