Reversal of A Visual Preference in Octopus After Removal of the Vertical Lobe
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- 1 October 1968
- journal article
- Published by The Company of Biologists in Journal of Experimental Biology
- Vol. 49 (2) , 413-419
- https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.49.2.413
Abstract
Normal octopuses tend to attack a black disk more often than a white one, when they are shown against a white background. The difference is not present with a grey background. After removal of the vertical lobe the preference is reversed and attacks are now more frequent at a white than at a black figure, when on a white ground.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Influence of Previous Preferences on the Memory of Octopus Vulgaris After Removal of the Vertical LobeJournal of Experimental Biology, 1965