Cephalopod Cognition

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

List 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.