Evidence for a specific short-term memory in the cuttlefish, Sepia

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 329-334

  Agin, Véronique ^a,b   Dickel, Ludovic ^a,b   Chichery, Raymond ^a,b   Chichery, Marie Paule ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b CREC   (France)

Author keywords

Cephalopod; Learning; Sepia; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEPHALOPOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TRAINING;

EID: 0031827972     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(98)00019-9     Document Type: Article

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