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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021

Adaptive behaviour and learning in slime moulds: the role of oscillations.

Aurèle Boussard, Adrian Fessel, Christina Oettmeier, Léa Briard, Hans-Günther Döbereiner, Audrey Dussutour

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Aurèle BoussardResearch Centre on Animal Cognition (CRCA), Centre for Integrative Biology (CBI), Toulouse University, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse 31062, France.
Adrian FesselInstitut für Biophysik, Universität Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
Christina OettmeierInstitut für Biophysik, Universität Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
Léa BriardResearch Centre on Animal Cognition (CRCA), Centre for Integrative Biology (CBI), Toulouse University, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse 31062, France.
Hans-Günther DöbereinerInstitut für Biophysik, Universität Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
Audrey DussutourResearch Centre on Animal Cognition (CRCA), Centre for Integrative Biology (CBI), Toulouse University, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse 31062, France.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRUniversity of Bremen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The slime mould

Indexed as

Adaptation, BiologicalLearningMemoryPhysarum polycephalumSignal TransductioncognitionlearningoscillationsPhysarum polycephalumslime mouldsynchronization

Identifiers

PMID33487112
PMCPMC7935053
OpenAlexW3123648691

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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