Do plants pay attention? A possible phenomenological-empirical approach

AG Parise, GRA De Toledo… - Progress in Biophysics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Attention is the important ability of flexibly controlling limited cognitive resources. It ensures
that organisms engage with the activities and stimuli that are relevant to their survival …

Exploring the complex information processes underlying plant behavior

A Novoplansky, GM Souza, ED Brenner… - Plant Signaling & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Newly discovered plant behaviors, linked to historical observations, contemporary
technologies, and emerging knowledge of signaling mechanisms, argue that plants utilize …

Extended cognition in plants: is it possible?

AG Parise, M Gagliano, GM Souza - Plant signaling & behavior, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Plants do not possess brains or neurons. However, they present astonishingly complex
behaviors such as information acquisition, memory, learning, decision making, etc., which …

[HTML][HTML] Plant awareness in the hand

S Guerra, S Betti, L Sartori, G Zani… - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The human inability to notice plants and recognise their importance on Earth has been
termed “plant blindness”. Among the main reasons (eg, cultural and biological factors) …

Decision-making underlying support-searching in pea plants

Q Wang, S Guerra, B Bonato, V Simonetti… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Finding a suitable support is a key process in the life history of climbing plants. Those that
find a suitable support have greater performance and fitness than those that remain …

The dynamics of plant nutation

V Raja, PL Silva, R Holghoomi, P Calvo - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
In this article we advance a cutting-edge methodology for the study of the dynamics of plant
movements of nutation. Our approach, unlike customary kinematic analyses of shape …

Evidence of motor intentions in plants: A kinematical study.

B Bonato, V Simonetti, M Bulgheroni… - Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract “How” an action is performed is not solely determined by biomechanical constraints,
but it depends on the agent's intention, that is,“why” the action is performed. Recent findings …

Cognition and intelligence of green plants. Information for animal scientists

P Calvo, A Trewavas - Biochemical and biophysical research …, 2021 - Elsevier
Earth is a planet dominated by plants. Tundra, forests, prairies and jungle are all words that
describe the easily dominant organisms. Oxygen, 20% of the atmosphere, testifies to the …

Speed–accuracy trade-off in plants

F Ceccarini, S Guerra, A Peressotti, F Peressotti… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2020 - Springer
Speed–accuracy trade-off (SAT) is the tendency for decision speed to covary with decision
accuracy. SAT is an inescapable property of aimed movements being present in a wide …

Kinematic evidence of root-to-shoot signaling for the coding of support thickness in pea plants

S Guerra, B Bonato, Q Wang, A Peressotti, F Peressotti… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A growing body of evidence has reported that climbing plants show the
unique ability of being able to locate a support in the environment and recognize some of its …