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Cephalopod cognition / [edited by] Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq, Ludovic Dickel and Jennifer Mather.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.Description: xviii, 247 p. : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781107015562 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 594.5 23 D222
Contents:
Part I. Cognition, brain and evolution. 1. Cuttlefish preschool or how to learn in the peri-hatching period / Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq, Christelle Jozet-Alves, Cécile Bellanger and Ludovic Dickel ; 2. Evolution of behavioral and neural complexity : learning and memory in chambered Nautilus / Jennifer Basil and Robyn Crook ; 3. Learning from play in octopus / Michael J. Kuba, Tamar Gutnick and Gordon M. Burghardt ; 4. The neurophysiological basis of learning and memory in an advanced invertebrate : the octopus / Binyamin Hochner and Tal Shomrat ; 5. The octopus with two brains : how are distributed and central representations integrated in the octopus central nervous system? / Frank W. Grasso -- Part II. Cognition and the environment. 6. Foraging and cognitive competence in octopuses / Jennifer A. Mather, Tatiana S. Leite, Roland C. Anderson and James B. Wood ; 7. Navigation in cephalopods / Christelle Jozet-Alves, Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq and Jean G. Boal ; 8. Camouflage in benthic cephalopods : what does it teach us? / Noam Josef and Nadav Shashar ; 9. Cuttlefish camouflage : vision and cognition / Sarah Zylinski and Daniel Osorio -- 10. Visual cognition in deep-sea cephalopods : what we don't know and why we don't know it / Sarah Zylinski and Sönke Johnsen-- Index of species-- Index.
Summary: Focusing on comparative cognition in cephalopods, this book illuminates the wide range of mental function in this often overlooked group.
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Part I. Cognition, brain and evolution.
1. Cuttlefish preschool or how to learn in the peri-hatching period / Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq, Christelle Jozet-Alves, Cécile Bellanger and Ludovic Dickel ;
2. Evolution of behavioral and neural complexity : learning and memory in chambered Nautilus / Jennifer Basil and Robyn Crook ;
3. Learning from play in octopus / Michael J. Kuba, Tamar Gutnick and Gordon M. Burghardt ;
4. The neurophysiological basis of learning and memory in an advanced invertebrate : the octopus / Binyamin Hochner and Tal Shomrat ;
5. The octopus with two brains : how are distributed and central representations integrated in the octopus central nervous system? / Frank W. Grasso --
Part II. Cognition and the environment.
6. Foraging and cognitive competence in octopuses / Jennifer A. Mather, Tatiana S. Leite, Roland C. Anderson and James B. Wood ;
7. Navigation in cephalopods / Christelle Jozet-Alves, Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq and Jean G. Boal ;
8. Camouflage in benthic cephalopods : what does it teach us? / Noam Josef and Nadav Shashar ;
9. Cuttlefish camouflage : vision and cognition / Sarah Zylinski and Daniel Osorio --
10. Visual cognition in deep-sea cephalopods : what we don't know and why we don't know it / Sarah Zylinski and Sönke Johnsen--
Index of species--
Index.

Focusing on comparative cognition in cephalopods, this book illuminates the wide range of mental function in this often overlooked group.

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