Embryonic visual learning in the cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 131-134

  Darmaillacq, Anne Sophie ^a   Lesimple, Clémence ^a   Dickel, Ludovic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

cuttlefish; embryonic cognition; exposure; invertebrate; prenatal learning; Sepia officinalis

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPOD; CHEMICAL CUE; COGNITION; CRAB; EMBRYO; HATCHING; LEARNING; SENSORY SYSTEM; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; SEPIA OFFICINALIS; SEPIIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 44949214645     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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