Could plants have cognitive abilities?

Could plants have cognitive abilities?

Vegetation is traditionally regarded as passive, doing nothing but what is essential to grow and survive. Evidence is accumulating, however, in support of formerly esoteric notions that plants can communicate, remember, even count--features that one would call cognitive if they were observed in animals. Michael Gross reports.

Height and Cognitive Function among Older Europeans: Do People from “Tall” Countries have Superior Cognitive Abilities?

Height and Cognitive Function among Older Europeans: Do People from “Tall” Countries Have Superior Cognitive Abilities? Previous research has found that height is correlated with cognitive functioning at older ages. It therefore makes sense to ask a related question: do people from countries where the average person is relatively tall have superior cognitive abilities on average? Using data fro...

Ageing, Cognitive Abilities and Retirement Ageing, Cognitive Abilities and Retirement *

We investigate the relationship between ageing, cognitive abilities and retirement using the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), a household panel that offers the possibility of comparing several European countries using nationally representative samples of the population aged 50+. The human capital framework suggests that retirement may cause an increase in cognitive dec...

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The Cognitive Map: Could It Have Been Any Other Way? the Cognitive Map

Could the human cognitive map, with all of its peculiarities, be structured in any other way and still perform the useful functions it does? We can perform a thought-experiment by imagining that we must design the cognitive map for a robot, operating under limited cognitive resources, which must assimilate and use knowledge about its large-scale environment acquired from observations during tra...