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'''Memory transfer''' was a biological process proposed by [[James V. McConnell]] and others in the 1960s. Memory transfer proposes a chemical basis for [[memory]] termed '''memory [[RNA]]''' which can be [[Heredity|passed down]] through flesh instead of an intact nervous system. Since RNA encodes information<ref name="Reckoning"/> and living cells produce and modify RNA in reaction to external events, it might also be used in [[neuron]]s to record stimuli.<ref name="Kentridge">{{cite web |author=Bob Kentridge |title=Investigations of the cellular bases of memory |url=http://www.dur.ac.uk/robert.kentridge/bpp2mem1.html |access-date=2011-03-03 |publisher=[[University of Durham]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015043719/http://www.dur.ac.uk/robert.kentridge/bpp2mem1.html |archive-date=2012-10-15 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/memory-transferred-between-snails-challenging-standard-theory-of-how-the-brain-remembers/|title=Memory Transferred between Snails, Challenging Standard Theory of How the Brain Remembers|last=McFarling, STAT|first=Usha Lee|website=Scientific American|language=en|access-date=2019-03-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44111476|title='Memory transplant' achieved in snails|last=Dave|first=Shivani|date=2018-05-14|access-date=2019-03-10|language=en-GB}}</ref> This was proposed as an explanation for the results of McConnell's experiments in which [[planarian]]s retained memory of [[Learning|acquired information]] after [[Planarian#Regeneration|regeneration]]. | '''Memory transfer''' was a biological process proposed by [[James V. McConnell]] and others in the 1960s. Memory transfer proposes a chemical basis for [[memory]] termed '''memory [[RNA]]''' which can be [[Heredity|passed down]] through flesh instead of an intact nervous system. Since RNA encodes information<ref name="Reckoning"/> and living cells produce and modify RNA in reaction to external events, it might also be used in [[neuron]]s to record stimuli.<ref name="Kentridge">{{cite web |author=Bob Kentridge |title=Investigations of the cellular bases of memory |url=http://www.dur.ac.uk/robert.kentridge/bpp2mem1.html |access-date=2011-03-03 |publisher=[[University of Durham]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015043719/http://www.dur.ac.uk/robert.kentridge/bpp2mem1.html |archive-date=2012-10-15 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/memory-transferred-between-snails-challenging-standard-theory-of-how-the-brain-remembers/|title=Memory Transferred between Snails, Challenging Standard Theory of How the Brain Remembers|last=McFarling, STAT|first=Usha Lee|website=Scientific American|language=en|access-date=2019-03-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44111476|title='Memory transplant' achieved in snails|last=Dave|first=Shivani|date=2018-05-14|access-date=2019-03-10|language=en-GB}}</ref> This was proposed as an explanation for the results of McConnell's experiments in which [[planarian]]s retained memory of [[Learning|acquired information]] after [[Planarian#Regeneration|regeneration]]. | ||
In McConnell's experiments, he [[Classical conditioning|classically conditioned]] planarians to contract their bodies upon exposure to light by pairing it with an electric shock.<ref name="POLCT"/><ref name="TMTA">{{Cite web|url=https://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/06/memory-transfer|access-date=2021-02-05|website=www.apa.org|title=The memory-transfer episode}}</ref> The planarians retained this acquired information after being sliced and [[Planarian#Regeneration|regenerated]], even after multiple slicings to produce a planarian where none of the original trained planarian was present.<ref name="TMTA"/> The same held true after the planarians were ground up and fed to untrained [[cannibalistic]] planarians, usually ''[[Dugesia dorotocephala]]''.<ref name="TMTA"/><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |first=James |last=McConnell |title=The Modern Search for the Engram |date=1965 |editor=McConnell |encyclopedia=A Manual of Psychological Experimentation on Planarians |publisher=[[The Worm Runner's Digest]] |pages=5, 7 |url=https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/resources/documents/PlanarianManual.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418133845/https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/resources/documents/PlanarianManual.pdf |archive-date=2012-04-18 |via=Tufts University}}</ref> As the nervous system was fragmented but the nucleic acids were not, this seemed to indicate the existence of memory RNA.<ref name="TMTA"/> Some further experiments seem to support the original findings in that some memories may be stored outside the brain,<ref name="Reckoning"/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Duhaime-Ross|first1=Arielle|title=Flatworms Recall Familiar Environs, Even after Losing Their Heads|url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flatworms-recall-familiar-environs-even-after-losing-their-heads/|access-date=18 March 2015|work=[[Scientific American]]|date=17 September 2013}}</ref><ref name="Shomrat2013">{{cite journal |vauthors=Shomrat T, Levin M|title=An automated training paradigm reveals long-term memory in planaria and its persistence through head regeneration |journal=The Journal of Experimental Biology |volume=216 |issue=20|pages=3799–3810 |date=2013-07-02 |pmid=23821717 |doi=10.1242/jeb.087809|doi-access=free }}</ref> | In McConnell's experiments, he [[Classical conditioning|classically conditioned]] planarians to contract their bodies upon exposure to light by pairing it with an electric shock.<ref name="POLCT"/><ref name="TMTA">{{Cite web|url=https://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/06/memory-transfer|access-date=2021-02-05|website=www.apa.org|title=The memory-transfer episode}}</ref> The planarians retained this acquired information after being sliced and [[Planarian#Regeneration|regenerated]], even after multiple slicings to produce a planarian where none of the original trained planarian was present.<ref name="TMTA"/> The same held true after the planarians were ground up and fed to untrained [[cannibalistic]] planarians, usually ''[[Dugesia dorotocephala]]''.<ref name="TMTA"/><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |first=James |last=McConnell |title=The Modern Search for the Engram |date=1965 |editor=McConnell |encyclopedia=A Manual of Psychological Experimentation on Planarians |publisher=[[The Worm Runner's Digest]] |pages=5, 7 |url=https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/resources/documents/PlanarianManual.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418133845/https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/resources/documents/PlanarianManual.pdf |archive-date=2012-04-18 |via=Tufts University}}</ref> As the nervous system was fragmented but the nucleic acids were not, this seemed to indicate the existence of memory RNA.<ref name="TMTA"/> Some further experiments seem to support the original findings in that some memories may be stored outside the brain,<ref name="Reckoning"/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Duhaime-Ross|first1=Arielle|title=Flatworms Recall Familiar Environs, Even after Losing Their Heads|url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flatworms-recall-familiar-environs-even-after-losing-their-heads/|access-date=18 March 2015|work=[[Scientific American]]|date=17 September 2013}}</ref><ref name="Shomrat2013">{{cite journal |vauthors=Shomrat T, Levin M|title=An automated training paradigm reveals long-term memory in planaria and its persistence through head regeneration |journal=The Journal of Experimental Biology |volume=216 |issue=20|pages=3799–3810 |date=2013-07-02 |article-number=jeb.087809 |pmid=23821717 |doi=10.1242/jeb.087809|doi-access=free }}</ref> | ||
but McConnell's experiments proved to be largely [[irreproducible]] and it was later suggested that only sensitization was transferred,<ref name="POLCT">{{cite web|url=http://uwf.edu/wmikulas/Webpage/concept/chaptertwo.htm|title=Physiology of Learning|author=William L. Mikulas|access-date=2011-03-03|publisher=[[University of West Florida]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127051125/http://uwf.edu/wmikulas/Webpage/concept/chaptertwo.htm|archive-date=2017-11-27}}</ref> or that no transfer occurred and the effect was due to [[stress hormones]] in the donor or [[pheromone]] trails left on dirty lab glass.<ref name="Kentridge"/> Memory transfer through memory RNA is not currently a well-accepted explanation for the planarian behavior.<ref name="TMTA"/> | but McConnell's experiments proved to be largely [[irreproducible]] and it was later suggested that only sensitization was transferred,<ref name="POLCT">{{cite web|url=http://uwf.edu/wmikulas/Webpage/concept/chaptertwo.htm|title=Physiology of Learning|author=William L. Mikulas|access-date=2011-03-03|publisher=[[University of West Florida]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127051125/http://uwf.edu/wmikulas/Webpage/concept/chaptertwo.htm|archive-date=2017-11-27}}</ref> or that no transfer occurred and the effect was due to [[stress hormones]] in the donor or [[pheromone]] trails left on dirty lab glass.<ref name="Kentridge"/> Memory transfer through memory RNA is not currently a well-accepted explanation for the planarian behavior.<ref name="TMTA"/> | ||
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<ref name="Reckoning">{{Cite journal|doi=10.36877/pddbs.a0000105|title=Reckoning the Unresolved Scientific Question on Memory Transfer|year=2020|last1=Tan|first1=Loh Teng-Hern|last2=Ser|first2=Hooi-Leng|last3=Ong|first3=Yong Sze|last4=Khaw|first4=Kooi Yeong|last5=Pusparajah|first5=Priyia|last6=Chan|first6=Kok-Gan|last7=Lee|first7=Learn-Han|last8=Goh|first8=Bey-Hing|journal=Progress in Drug Discovery & Biomedical Science|volume=3|doi-access=free}}</ref> | <ref name="Reckoning">{{Cite journal|doi=10.36877/pddbs.a0000105|title=Reckoning the Unresolved Scientific Question on Memory Transfer|year=2020|last1=Tan|first1=Loh Teng-Hern|last2=Ser|first2=Hooi-Leng|last3=Ong|first3=Yong Sze|last4=Khaw|first4=Kooi Yeong|last5=Pusparajah|first5=Priyia|last6=Chan|first6=Kok-Gan|last7=Lee|first7=Learn-Han|last8=Goh|first8=Bey-Hing|journal=Progress in Drug Discovery & Biomedical Science|volume=3|doi-access=free}}</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:36, 26 December 2025
Template:Short description Memory transfer was a biological process proposed by James V. McConnell and others in the 1960s. Memory transfer proposes a chemical basis for memory termed memory RNA which can be passed down through flesh instead of an intact nervous system. Since RNA encodes information[1] and living cells produce and modify RNA in reaction to external events, it might also be used in neurons to record stimuli.[2][3][4] This was proposed as an explanation for the results of McConnell's experiments in which planarians retained memory of acquired information after regeneration.
In McConnell's experiments, he classically conditioned planarians to contract their bodies upon exposure to light by pairing it with an electric shock.[5][6] The planarians retained this acquired information after being sliced and regenerated, even after multiple slicings to produce a planarian where none of the original trained planarian was present.[6] The same held true after the planarians were ground up and fed to untrained cannibalistic planarians, usually Dugesia dorotocephala.[6][7] As the nervous system was fragmented but the nucleic acids were not, this seemed to indicate the existence of memory RNA.[6] Some further experiments seem to support the original findings in that some memories may be stored outside the brain,[1][8][9] but McConnell's experiments proved to be largely irreproducible and it was later suggested that only sensitization was transferred,[5] or that no transfer occurred and the effect was due to stress hormones in the donor or pheromone trails left on dirty lab glass.[2] Memory transfer through memory RNA is not currently a well-accepted explanation for the planarian behavior.[6]
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