An international team with participation from the University of Göttingen has now succeeded in making the first brain wave measurements in free-swimming octopuses. While such studies are now established in mammals and birds, this has not been possible in octopuses until now. Photo: Tamar Gutnick, Michael Kuba
An international team with participation from the University of Göttingen has now succeeded in making the first brain wave measurements in free-swimming octopuses. While such studies are now established in mammals and birds, this has not been possible in octopuses until now. Photo: Tamar Gutnick, Michael Kuba International research team studies brain waves of free-swimming octopuses for the first time Eight arms and a stealth skin - octopuses seem excitingly alien to us, their cognitive abilities fascinate us because they are comparable to those of vertebrates. Yet our evolutionary lines diverged about 550 million years ago. The combination of intelligence and strangeness prompted neuroscientists to study the brains of octopods as early as 150 years ago. An international team with participation from the University of Göttingen has now succeeded in making the first brain wave measurements in free-swimming octopuses. While such studies are now well established in mammals and birds, this has not been possible in octopuses until now.
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