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Book SynopsisFilling the research gap within complex invertebrate comparative cognition, this book explores the many aspects of cephalopod intelligence and thinking. With chapters covering the range of cognitive function, from play and development to the cephalopod's complex camouflage techniques, the text will be highly valuable for both researchers and graduates.
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Table of ContentsList of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Tribute to Martin J. Wells; Part I. Cognition, Brain and Evolution: 1. Cuttlefish preschool or how to learn in the perihatching 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 Mather, Tatiana S. Leite, Roland C. Anderson and James B. Wood; 7. Navigation in cephalopods Christelle Jozet-Alves, Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq and Jean Geary 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.
