Weight Discrimination by Octopus
Open Access
- 1 March 1961
- journal article
- Published by The Company of Biologists in Journal of Experimental Biology
- Vol. 38 (1) , 127-133
- https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.38.1.127
Abstract
1. Blinded octopuses can readily be trained to discriminate by touch between objects differing in texture. 2. They seem unable to discriminate between similar objects differing only in weight. 3. The relevance of this to what is already known about the use of proprioceptive information in learning by Octopus is discussed.Keywords
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