Their high-fidelity computational model is a milestone both in biology, where it can help explain the octopus's impressive capability, and engineering. "The computational model is a useful testbed for ...

Octopuses have a large nervous system, with the average octopus having about 500 million neurons or brain cells. That puts it in the same “brain range” as smaller mammals such as dogs.

Scientists have demonstrated that cephalopods have an expanded number of microRNA families, which could explain how the complex octopus brain developed. Octopuses and other coleoid cephalopods are ...

A previous study conduced by Hochner had shown that an area in the octopus, brain known to be important ... the rate at which the short-term memory system acquires short-term memories.

A team of engineers has developed a groundbreaking computer model that captures the complex muscle structure of an octopus ...

and nervous system. These arms can even initiate a response without consulting the brain. How octopus arms can do all this at a cellular level has largely remained a neuroscience mystery—one ...