Preparation

For Tuesday read:

Hochner, B., 2008. Octopuses. Current Biology, 18(19), pp.R897-R898.  [PDF]

Read Chapter 12 “Molluscan Defense and Escape Systems” (pp. 304-325) in Keith T. Sillar, Laurence D. Picton, William J. Heitler.  Neuroethology of Predation and Escape. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.  [PDF]

For Thursday read:

Shigeno, S., Andrews, P., Ponte, G. and Fiorito, G., 2018. Cephalopod brains: an overview of current knowledge to facilitate comparison with vertebrates. Frontiers in physiology, 9, p.952.  [PDF]

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Further reading

Scheel, D., 2018. Octopuses in wild and domestic relationships. Social Science Information, 57(3), pp.403-421.

Hochner, B., 2012. An embodied view of octopus neurobiology. Current biology, 22(20), pp.R887-R892.

Lettvin, J.Y., 1979. The Gorgon’s Eye. Astronomy of the Ancients, p.133.

Derby, C.D. and Aggio, J.F., 2011. The neuroecology of chemical defenses. Integrative and comparative biology, 51(5), pp.771-780.   [PDF]

Williamson, R. and Chrachri, A., 2004. Cephalopod neural networks. Neurosignals, 13(1-2), pp.87-98.   [PDF]

Sumbre, G., Fiorito, G., Flash, T. and Hochner, B., 2005. Neurobiology: motor control of flexible octopus arms. Nature, 433(7026), p.595.   [PDF]

Hochner, B., Shomrat, T. and Fiorito, G., 2006. The octopus: a model for a comparative analysis of the evolution of learning and memory mechanisms. The Biological Bulletin, 210(3), pp.308-317.   [PDF]