{"id":25089,"date":"2016-04-27T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T20:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/you-dont-need-a-brain-to-learn-scientists-found"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:25","slug":"you-dont-need-a-brain-to-learn-scientists-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/you-dont-need-a-brain-to-learn-scientists-found","title":{"rendered":"You don\u2019t need a brain to learn, scientists found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/you-dont-need-a-brain-to-learn-scientists-found.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talk about changing everything that we thought about the brain and learning.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new study from the University of Toulouse found that intelligence and learning aren\u2019t limited to organisms with brains. By studying the mold <em>Physarum polycephalum <\/em>they found it can, over time, learn to navigate even irritating environments.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/research\/mold-learning-54927\/\">http:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/research\/mold-learning-54927\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about changing everything that we thought about the brain and learning. A new study from the University of Toulouse found that intelligence and learning aren\u2019t limited to organisms with brains. By studying the mold Physarum polycephalum they found it can, over time, learn to navigate even irritating environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67626,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089\/revisions\/67626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}