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In the present paper consideration will be given to the question of whether acquired habits can survive the process of tissue renewal in planarians. Regeneration involves retention in the sense that the tissue which is regrown is a replication of what was lost; cellular differentiation and specification proceeds until former structural and functional systems are restored. As to acquired information, we might ask whether this class of events is also established in systems which are perpetuated during regeneration. If so, then it is reasonable to assume that memory involves physiological substrates which are replicated and that the nature of these substrates might be delineated by effecting changes in specific components of the regenerative process.
This paper was prepared with assistance from grant No. NSG 475, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Corning, W.C. (1967). Regeneration and Retention of Acquired Information. In: Corning, W.C., Ratner, S.C. (eds) Chemistry of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6565-3_18
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