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Miguel Segundo-Ortin and Paco Calvo, Plant sentience? Between romanticism and denial: Science

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I welcome Segundo-Ortin & Calvo’s (2023) call for a rigorous science of plant behavior and physiology. My commentary addresses three points drawn from the literature on animal brains that could help elucidate the possibility of cognition and sentience in plants: (1) the presumed requirement of a centralized brain; (2) centralization of control versus heterarchical organization; and (3) connecting plant research with research on animal nervous systems.

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Luiz Pessoa is a neuroscientist interested in how emotion, motivation, and cognition are integrated in the brain. He is the author of The Cognitive-Emotional Brain (2013) and The Entangled Brain (2022), both by MIT Press. Website

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10.51291/2377-7478.1774