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Harvard study offers compelling evidence that even tiny single-cell organisms could exhibit habituation akin to that seen in complex organisms with brains

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Habituation -- a simple form of learning -- involves the lessening response to a stimulus after repeated exposure.

Scientists at Harvard Medical School and the Centre for Genomic Regulation ( CRG ) in Barcelona found four networks that exhibit hallmarks of habituation present in animal brains.

Studying habituation in single cells could help propel understanding of how learning in general works.

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