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Re:Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how bra... by rejectedalot on Monday May 14, 2018 @11:01PM (#17071327)
It says that the snails retracted only briefly as a baseline, but learned to retract for longer periods of time to avoid the jarring electrical stimuli. I’m totally unfamiliar with this stuff, but it seems to me that injecting a snail with RNA would also be a jarring stimulus. Therefore, wouldn’t it be learning from the injection itself to remain in its shell for longer at a sign of human touch?
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Re:Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how bra... by eastophe on Monday May 14, 2018 @11:06PM (#17071353)
They injected the other snails with control RNA from snails which were not subject to the shocks. In other words, they did control for this.
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Re:Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how bra... by mattnewton on Monday May 14, 2018 @11:08PM (#17071363)
Came back here to say this. The relevant part: “Control snails that received injections of RNA from snails that had not received shocks did not withdraw their siphons for as long.”
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Re:Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how bra... by rejectedalot on Monday May 14, 2018 @11:10PM (#17071371)
I missed that - thank you for clearing this up!
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Re:Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how bra... by mckenna on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @03:52AM (#17072324)
may be the control injection doesn't hurt as much as the rna injection?
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Re:Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how bra... by ben_w on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @03:58AM (#17072351)
Control was also RNA, but from unschocked snail.
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