{"id":173183,"date":"2023-09-30T14:17:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T19:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/these-adorable-jellyfish-show-learning-doesnt-even-require-a-brain"},"modified":"2023-09-30T14:17:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T19:17:41","slug":"these-adorable-jellyfish-show-learning-doesnt-even-require-a-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/these-adorable-jellyfish-show-learning-doesnt-even-require-a-brain","title":{"rendered":"These Adorable Jellyfish Show Learning Doesn\u2019t Even Require a Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-adorable-jellyfish-show-learning-doesnt-even-require-a-brain8.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiny, brainless jellyfish just did something that on the surface may seem impossible: the adorable creatures showed evidence of learning.<\/p>\n<p>Even with just 1,000 neurons active at a time and no central brain, Caribbean box jellyfish (Tripedalia cystophora) can learn from experience, researchers argue in a new paper published September 22 in the journal Current Biology. The results aren\u2019t surprising, say several scientists not involved in the project, but are a reminder for people to think more broadly about learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re an animal and have to navigate the world, you have to learn cues and consequences. Otherwise you\u2019re dead, and you can\u2019t reproduce,\u201d says Christie Sahley, a\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Human scientists\u2014used to the benefits of a centralized, complex brain\u2014have been underestimating what a simple nerve network can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny, brainless jellyfish just did something that on the surface may seem impossible: the adorable creatures showed evidence of learning. Even with just 1,000 neurons active at a time and no central brain, Caribbean box jellyfish (Tripedalia cystophora) can learn from experience, researchers argue in a new paper published September 22 in the journal Current [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}