Thoughts from the forest floor: a review of cognition in the slime mould Physarum polycephalum.
Animal cognition November 2023 Chris R Reid
Sensing, communication, navigation, decision-making, memory and learning are key components in a standard cognitive tool-kit that enhance an animal's ability to successfully survive and reproduce. However, these tools are not only useful for, or accessible to, animals-they evolved long ago in simpler organisms using mechanisms which may be either unique or widely conserved across diverse taxa....