Paco Calvo
Biographic Data
| ID | 339279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paco Calvo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paco |
| FAMILY NAME | Calvo |
| SIGNATURE | CALVO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Murcia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6196-7560 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching & Learning Guide for
The study of plant cognition has emerged as a provocative and rapidly developing area at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and plant biology. Long-standing assumptions that restrict cognition to organisms with nervous systems have been challenged by empirical research documenting flexible, context-sensitive, and goal-directed behaviours in plants. These findings raise foundational questions: What counts as cognition? How should i…
Plant Cognition—An Empirical Primer
Recent advances in plant biology suggest that plants engage in complex behaviours once thought to require nervous systems. This article surveys the empirical foundations of plant cognition, covering research on goal‐directed movement, decision‐making, anticipatory behaviour, communication, phytoacoustics, and plant neurobiology. In addition, we examine evidence for systemic signalling and anaesthesia in plants, alongside parallels and contrasts w…
Plant Cognition—A Methodological Primer
Part I: What counts as cognition, and how can it be studied in organisms without nervous systems? The emerging field of plant cognition confronts these questions by integrating philosophy, plant science and comparative psychology. This article provides a methodological primer on the field. We first survey major theoretical approaches—computationalist and representationalist, radical embodied, and behaviour‐first—and consider how they might be int…
The potential of plant action potentials
The mechanism underlying action potentials is routinely used to explicate the mechanistic model of explanation in the philosophy of science. However, characterisations of action potentials often fixate on neurons, mentioning plant cells in passing or ignoring them entirely. The plant sciences are also prone to neglecting non-neuronal action potentials and their role in plant biology. This oversight is significant because plant action potentials b…
Understanding interdisciplinary perspectives of plant intelligence
Background Evidence suggests that plants can behave intelligently by exhibiting the ability to learn, make associations between environmental cues, engage in complex decisions about resource acquisition, memorize, and adapt in flexible ways. However, plant intelligence is a disputed concept in the scientific community. Reasons for lack of consensus can be traced back to the history of Western philosophy, interpretation of terminology, and due to …
Are plants cognitive? A reply to Adams
The philosophy of plant neurobiology
The philosophy of plant neurobiology
Are plants cognitive? A reply to Adams
The potential of plant action potentials
The mechanism underlying action potentials is routinely used to explicate the mechanistic model of explanation in the philosophy of science. However, characterisations of action potentials often fixate on neurons, mentioning plant cells in passing or ignoring them entirely. The plant sciences are also prone to neglecting non-neuronal action potentials and their role in plant biology. This oversight is significant because plant action potentials b…
Understanding interdisciplinary perspectives of plant intelligence
Background Evidence suggests that plants can behave intelligently by exhibiting the ability to learn, make associations between environmental cues, engage in complex decisions about resource acquisition, memorize, and adapt in flexible ways. However, plant intelligence is a disputed concept in the scientific community. Reasons for lack of consensus can be traced back to the history of Western philosophy, interpretation of terminology, and due to …
The philosophy of plant neurobiology
Are plants cognitive? A reply to Adams
Understanding interdisciplinary perspectives of plant intelligence
Background Evidence suggests that plants can behave intelligently by exhibiting the ability to learn, make associations between environmental cues, engage in complex decisions about resource acquisition, memorize, and adapt in flexible ways. However, plant intelligence is a disputed concept in the scientific community. Reasons for lack of consensus can be traced back to the history of Western philosophy, interpretation of terminology, and due to …
The potential of plant action potentials
The mechanism underlying action potentials is routinely used to explicate the mechanistic model of explanation in the philosophy of science. However, characterisations of action potentials often fixate on neurons, mentioning plant cells in passing or ignoring them entirely. The plant sciences are also prone to neglecting non-neuronal action potentials and their role in plant biology. This oversight is significant because plant action potentials b…
Plant Cognition—A Methodological Primer
Part I: What counts as cognition, and how can it be studied in organisms without nervous systems? The emerging field of plant cognition confronts these questions by integrating philosophy, plant science and comparative psychology. This article provides a methodological primer on the field. We first survey major theoretical approaches—computationalist and representationalist, radical embodied, and behaviour‐first—and consider how they might be int…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
The study of plant cognition has emerged as a provocative and rapidly developing area at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and plant biology. Long-standing assumptions that restrict cognition to organisms with nervous systems have been challenged by empirical research documenting flexible, context-sensitive, and goal-directed behaviours in plants. These findings raise foundational questions: What counts as cognition? How should i…
Plant Cognition—An Empirical Primer
Recent advances in plant biology suggest that plants engage in complex behaviours once thought to require nervous systems. This article surveys the empirical foundations of plant cognition, covering research on goal‐directed movement, decision‐making, anticipatory behaviour, communication, phytoacoustics, and plant neurobiology. In addition, we examine evidence for systemic signalling and anaesthesia in plants, alongside parallels and contrasts w…
Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies (7 works) · Animal and Plant Science Education (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Empirical research (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Plant and animal studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)