ReviewDie Naturwissenschaften2005
Plant intelligence.
Review in Die Naturwissenschaften, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.
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- G. T. Fechner (1848): Plants as sentient living beings.Plant signaling & behavior · 2026Article
- Plant Behaviour, Adaptive Plasticity and Evolution: Reassessing the Debate on Plant Intelligence.Biology · 2026Review
- Plant emotion revisited: toward a new conceptual framework.Protoplasma · 2026Review
- Can Mimosa pudica Plants Enumerate Light Exposure Events?Cognitive science · 2025Article
- Plant "intelligence" and the misuse of historical sources as evidence.Protoplasma · 2025Review
- Extending cognition: a vegetal rejoinder to extensionless thought and to extended cognition.Plant signaling & behavior · 2024Article
- A study on diameter-dependent support selection of the tendrils of Cayratia japonica.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Towards the Idea of Molecular Brains.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- A tree's quest for light-optimal height and diameter growth under a shading canopy.Tree physiology · 2021Article
- The plant body as a network of semi-autonomous agents: a review.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Flowers anticipate revisits of pollinators by learning from previously experienced visitation intervals.Plant signaling & behavior · 2019Article
- Senomic view of the cell: SenomeCommunicative & integrative biology · 2018Review
- How do Plants Keep their Functional Integrity?Plant signaling & behavior · 2018Review
- Predicting green: really radical (plant) predictive processing.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2017Article
- Developmental program impacts phenological plasticity of spring wheat under drought.Botanical studies · 2016Article
- On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Review
- Epigenetic Memory as a Basis for Intelligent Behavior in Clonal Plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2016Article
- "Feature Detection" vs. "Predictive Coding" Models of Plant Behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- Ecological constraints on the origin of neurones.Journal of mathematical biology · 2015Article
- Conditions for minimal intelligence across eukaryota: a cognitive science perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Intelligent behavior is a complex adaptive phenomenon that has evolved to enable organisms to deal with variable environmental circumstances. Maximizing fitness requires skill in foraging for necessary resources (food) in competitive circumstances and is probably the activity in which intelligent behavior is most easily seen. Biologists suggest that intelligence encompasses the characteristics of detailed sensory perception, information processing, learning, memory, choice, optimisation of resource sequestration with minimal outlay, self-recognition, and foresight by predictive modeling. All these properties are concerned with a capacity for problem solving in recurrent and novel situations. Here I review the evidence that individual plant species exhibit all of these intelligent behavioral capabilities but do so through phenotypic plasticity, not movement. Furthermore it is in the competitive foraging for resources that most of these intelligent attributes have been detected. Plants should therefore be regarded as prototypical intelligent organisms, a concept that has considerable consequences for investigations of whole plant communication, computation and signal transduction.
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