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SUMMARY:Network morphology to store memories - Professor Karen Alim (TU Mu
 nich)
DTSTART:20210414T160000Z
DTEND:20210414T170000Z
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CONTACT:Dr. Adrien Hallou
DESCRIPTION:Simple organisms manage to thrive in complex environments. Rem
 embering information about the environment is key to take decisions. Physa
 rum polycephalum excels as a giant unicellular eukaryote being even able t
 o solve optimisation problems despite the lack of a nervous system. Here\,
  we follow experimentally the organism’s response to a nutrient source a
 nd find that memory about nutrient location is encoded in the morphology o
 f the network-shaped organism. Our theoretical predictions in line with ou
 r observations unveil the mechanism behind memory encoding and demonstrate
  the P. polycephalum’s ability to read out previously stored information
 . Our theoretical investigation in the memory formation ability of adaptiv
 e networks in general reveals that the erosion of weak network links is ke
 y to store information about the past.
LOCATION:Webinar
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