I wrote a book: "The brain, in theory" (to be published by Princeton University Press).

First chapter and TOC:
http://romainbrette.fr/WordPress3/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The-brain-in-theory-TOC-and-first-chapter.pdf

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Our first paper on the behavior of Paramecium, a unicellular swimming organism that spikes! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.20.521225v1

We look at what happens when it hits a little pillar. Often, it simply slips along it, but it sometimes does an “avoiding reaction”: it briefly swims backward, then changes direction. This is triggered by an action potential. We found that this reaction is often delayed: the organism slides on the obstacle, then withdraws.