# Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2017
- Speaker: Greg Gage
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/greg_gage_electrical_experiments_with_plants_that_count_and_communicate)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Neuroscientist Greg Gage takes sophisticated equipment used to study the brain out of graduate-level labs and brings them to middle- and high-school classrooms (and, sometimes, to the TED stage.) Prepare to be amazed as he hooks up the Mimosa pudica, a plant whose leaves close when touched, and the Venus flytrap to an EKG to show us how plants use electrical signals to convey information, prompt movement and even count.

## Lectures

1. [Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/greg_gage_electrical_experiments_with_plants_that_count_and_communicate/7feec429f749), 10 min (TED's player)