{"id":3368,"date":"2022-04-12T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2022-04-12T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T09:00:32","slug":"uwe-bristol-academic-researches-the-language-of-fungi-derived-from-their-electrical-spiking-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/uwe-bristol-academic-researches-the-language-of-fungi-derived-from-their-electrical-spiking-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"UWE Bristol academic researches the language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UWE Bristol academic Professor Andrew Adamatzky has theorised that electrical impulses sent by mycological organisms could be similar to human language, after undertaking research into four type of fungi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Adamatzky research, which has recently been published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rsos.211926\">Royal Society Open Science<\/a>, highlighted that fungi exhibit oscillations of extracellular electrical potential (or electrical spikes) recorded via differential electrodes inserted into a substrate colonized by mycelium or directly into sporocarps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research found that the spikes often became clustered, resembling vocabularies of up to 50 words, and the spreading of these \u201cfungal word lengths\u201d strongly complemented those of human languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andy commented: \u201cIn the future, it would be good to collect more data on `language\u2019 of different species of fungi to check if there are any species-specific variations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"439\" height=\"328\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/mushrrooms-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/mushrrooms-1.jpg 439w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/mushrrooms-1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 85vw, 439px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Andrew Adamatzky is a Professor in Unconventional Computing and founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/uncomp.uwe.ac.uk\/about\/\">Unconventional Computing Laboratory<\/a> in 2001 as a response to an urgent need to develop computers for next century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more about Professor Andrew Adamatzky work in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2022\/apr\/06\/fungi-electrical-impulses-human-language-study\">this Guardian Article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWE Bristol academic Professor Andrew Adamatzky has theorised that electrical impulses sent by mycological organisms could be similar to human language, after undertaking research into four type of fungi. 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