The Inner Lives of Cephalopods

Further evidence for the capacity of mirror self-recognition in cleaner fish and the significance of ecologically relevant marks

(2022) Masanori Kohda et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Unruly octopuses are the rule: Octopus vulgaris use multiple and individually variable strategies in an episodic-like memory task

(2022) Lisa Poncet et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A preliminary attempt to investigate mirror self-recognition in Octopus vulgaris

(2022) Piero Amodio et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Cephalopods: Ambassadors for rethinking cognition

(2021) Alexandra K. Schnell et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Cuttlefish exert self-control in a delay of gratification task

(2021) Alexandra K. Schnell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence suggests affective pain experience in octopus

(2021) Robyn J. Crook   iScience

Episodic-like memory is preserved with age in cuttlefish

(2021) Alexandra K. Schnell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An evolutionary view of self-awareness

(2021) Caio A. Lage et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Cuttlefish show flexible and future-dependent foraging cognition

(2020) Pauline Billard et al.   Biology Letters

Cuttlefish retrieve whether they smelt or saw a previously encountered item

(2020) P. Billard et al.   Scientific Reports

How intelligent is a cephalopod? Lessons from comparative cognition

(2020) Alexandra K. Schnell et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Use of Peripheral Sensory Information for Central Nervous Control of Arm Movement by Octopus vulgaris

(2020) Tamar Gutnick et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Octopuses punch fishes during collaborative interspecific hunting events

(2020) Eduardo Sampaio et al.   ECOLOGY

Octopus arms exhibit exceptional flexibility

(2020) E. B. Lane Kennedy et al.   Scientific Reports

If a fish can pass the mark test, what are the implications for consciousness and self-awareness testing in animals?

(2019) Masanori Kohda et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Cephalopod cognition

(2019) Alexandra K. Schnell et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

That dog won’t fit: body size awareness in dogs

(2019) R. Lenkei et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Grow Smart and Die Young: Why Did Cephalopods Evolve Intelligence?

(2018) Piero Amodio et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Size Matters: Observed and Modeled Camouflage Response of European Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) to Different Substrate Patch Sizes during Movement

(2017) Noam Josef et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Embodied Organization of Octopus vulgaris Morphology, Vision, and Locomotion

(2017) Guy Levy et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Elephants know when their bodies are obstacles to success in a novel transfer task

(2017) Rachel Dale et al.   Scientific Reports

Learned control of body patterning in cuttlefishSepia officinalis(Cephalopoda)

(2016) Alexander R. Hough et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLLUSCAN STUDIES

The Rubber Tail Illusion as Evidence of Body Ownership in Mice

(2016) M. Wada et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Pull or Push? Octopuses Solve a Puzzle Problem

(2016) Jonas N. Richter et al.   PLoS One

Arm Coordination in Octopus Crawling Involves Unique Motor Control Strategies

(2015) Guy Levy et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mirror self-recognition: a review and critique of attempts to promote and engineer self-recognition in primates

(2015) James R. Anderson et al.   PRIMATES

Waiting for better, not for more: corvids respond to quality in two delay maintenance tasks

(2014) Friederike Hillemann et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Minding the gap: in-flight body awareness in birds

(2014) Ingo Schiffner et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Colour change and camouflage in the horned ghost crabOcypode ceratophthalmus

(2013) Martin Stevens et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Goffin cockatoos wait for qualitative and quantitative gains but prefer 'better' to 'more'

(2013) A. M. I. Auersperg et al.   Biology Letters

Evidence of episodic-like memory in cuttlefish

(2013) Christelle Jozet-Alves et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dynamic biophotonics: female squid exhibit sexually dimorphic tunable leucophores and iridocytes

(2013) D. G. DeMartini et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Referential gestures in fish collaborative hunting

(2013) Alexander L. Vail et al.   Nature Communications

It pays to cheat: tactical deception in a cephalopod social signalling system

(2012) C. Brown et al.   Biology Letters

Corvids can decide if a future exchange is worth waiting for

(2011) V. Dufour et al.   Biology Letters

Octopus vulgaris Uses Visual Information to Determine the Location of Its Arm

(2011) Tamar Gutnick et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cuttlefish use visual cues to determine arm postures for camouflage

(2011) A. Barbosa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Vigilance and antipredator responses of Caribbean reef squid

(2010) Jennifer A. Mather   MARINE AND FRESHWATER BEHAVIOUR AND PHYSIOLOGY

Inducing illusory ownership of a virtual body

(2010) Mel Slater   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Cuttlefish use startle displays, but not against large predators

(2009) Keri V. Langridge   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Mirror-Induced Behavior in the Magpie (Pica pica): Evidence of Self-Recognition

(2008) Helmut Prior et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY