On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Krengel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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http://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/06/memory-transfer.aspx

TIME CAPSULE
The memory-transfer episode

Feeding trained worms to their cannibalistic brothers, James V. McConnell
argued that memories are encoded in the structure of molecules.

By Larry Stern

June 2010, Vol 41, No. 6


....


Everything changed when, in late 1965, four independent labs reported
successful memory-transfer experiments using rats (and in one case,
cross-species transfer between rats and mice). Two of these reports
appeared in the high-impact journals *Science *and *Nature*.

No one could argue that rats cannot learn. Within a few months, more than
50 labs, including teams at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT and Yale, conducted
transfer experiments. McConnell, after failed attempts using salamanders
and mynah birds, also turned to rats.

And then things got *really* interesting.
Print version: page 28

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