memory

feb. 4, 2011
Summary:                                                                             
In 1962 at the university of Michigan scientists successfully extracted memory from one animal to another. Over a period of time planarian worms were trained to act a certain way when they were exposed to light. The worms were cut into pieces and fed to untrained planarian worms and put into the same learning paces as the ones before them. The result of this led to the untrained planarian worms learning a lot faster than the originals indicating that the knowledge had transferred from the previous. Later on at Bayor University similar experiments were conducted and the implication of these experiments is that memory can be transferred from one being another somatically as well as experimentally.

Opinion: The fact that memory can be transferred just by body tissue is fascinating. This process that the scientists used seems very simple but took quite a bit of time. The untrained planarian worms being smarter and faster the the first amazes me. scientists should go further and try some experiments on humans in my opinion. This proves just how smart animals really are no matter what size. http://www.skygaze.com/content/facts/biology.shtml
                                                                                                                                      bianca brailey