Prof. Dr. Karen Alim (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Prof. Dr. Karen Alim

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Prof. Karen Alim, Technical University of Munich, and Mirna Kramar, Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, discovered how the slime mold Physarum polycephalum weaves its memories of food encounters directly into the architecture of the network-like body and uses the stored information when making future decisions.

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