{"id":443540,"date":"2022-07-22T15:21:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T18:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=443540"},"modified":"2022-07-22T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T18:21:42","slug":"a-hypothetical-fungi-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/a-hypothetical-fungi-language\/","title":{"rendered":"A hypothetical fungi language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electrical signals emitted by neurons are the basis of a language used by the nervous system in animals. However, many living beings without a nervous system also produce these same signals, including fungi. Electrical charges have been detected in the filaments (hyphae) of these organisms. Andrew Adamatzky, a computer scientist from the Unconventional Computing Laboratory at the University of the West of England in Bristol, theorizes that these sequences of electrical signals could serve as a means of communication between parts of fungi or between them and other organisms. Using electrodes, he measured the frequency and duration of electrical discharge sequences from four species of fungus: <em>Omphalotus nidiformis<\/em>, <em>Flammulina velutipes<\/em>, <em>Schizophyllum commune, <\/em>and <em>Cordyceps militaris<\/em>. Assuming that they are used to communicate, he compared the duration of the electrical signals to phonemes in the English language. The analysis revealed patterns with a remarkably similar structure to human language. The signals are grouped into vocabulary-like sequences of up to 50 words, each similar in length to words in some languages (<em>Royal Society Open Science<\/em>, April 6). It is not known whether the patterns are actually a form of communication or an effect of fungal growth, Adamatzky told the newspaper <em>The Independent<\/em>. In previous research, he had observed changes in electrical activity when subjecting fungi to optical, electrical, or chemical stimuli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Computer scientist has mapped what could be a fungi language","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":443545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[209,220,250,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-443540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-biology","tag-communication","tag-neuroscience","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443549,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443540\/revisions\/443549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443540"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=443540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}