To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Insects & other Invertebrates  Molluscs  Cephalopods

Cephalopod Cognition

By: Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq(Editor), Ludovic Dickel(Editor), Jennifer A Mather(Editor)
263 pages, 16 plates with colour photos and colour illustrations; 65 b/w photos and illustrations, 7 tables
Cephalopod Cognition
Click to have a closer look
Select version
  • Cephalopod Cognition ISBN: 9781108464697 Paperback Jul 2018 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
    £32.99
    #241210
  • Cephalopod Cognition ISBN: 9781107015562 Hardback Jul 2014 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
    £99.99
    #211072
Selected version: £32.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Biography Related titles Recommended titles

About this book

Cephalopods are generally regarded as the most intelligent group among the invertebrates. Despite their popularity, relatively little is known about the range and function of their cognitive abilities. Cephalopod Cognition fills that gap, accentuating the varied and fascinating aspects of cognition across the group. Starting with the brain, learning and memory, Part I looks at early learning, memory acquisition and cognitive development in modern cephalopods. An analysis of the chambered nautilus, a living fossil, is included, providing insight into the evolution of behavioural complexity. Part II surveys environmental responses, especially within the active and learning-dependent coleoids. The ever-intriguing camouflage abilities of octopus and cuttlefish are highlighted, alongside bioluminescence, navigation and other aspects of visual and cognitive competence. Covering the range of cognitive function, this text underscores the importance of the cephalopods within the field of comparative cognition generally. It will be highly valuable for researchers, graduates and senior undergraduate students.

Contents

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, Cecile 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 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 Sonke Johnsen

Index

Customer Reviews

Biography

Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq is a researcher in the Group Memory and Behavioural Plasticity Unit at Caen University in France. She studies embryonic cognition and early learning systems in the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis and lectures in ethology at graduate and undergraduate levels.

Ludovic Dickel is Professor of Behavioural Biology at Caen University, managing the Group Memory and Behavioural Plasticity Unit. His research interests are focused on brain development and cognition in cuttlefish as well as collaborative work on embryonic neuroethology in oviparous species.

Jennifer Mather is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She is active in researching many aspects of cephalopod cognition and behaviour, especially in octopuses, including groundbreaking work in personality, play and consciousness.

By: Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq(Editor), Ludovic Dickel(Editor), Jennifer A Mather(Editor)
263 pages, 16 plates with colour photos and colour illustrations; 65 b/w photos and illustrations, 7 tables
Media reviews

"[...] well worth the cover price [...]"
– Stephen Hoskins, The Biologist

Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides