These intelligent sea creatures have multiple brains — nine, to be exact. In addition to a central brain located between its eyes, an octopus has eight separate clusters of nerve cells, called ganglia ...

The octopus nervous system is among the most unusual on Earth. Unlike in other intelligent animals, it's highly distributed, with a significant proportion of its 500 million-odd neurons spread ...

Octopus arms move with incredible dexterity, bending, twisting, and curling with nearly infinite degrees of freedom. New research from the University of Chicago revealed that the nervous system ...

Now, in a new study published on November 28 in Current Biology, Hale and her colleagues have described something new and totally unexpected about the octopus nervous system: a structure by which the ...

But, unlike vertebrate organisms, the octopus’s nervous system is also decentralized, with around 350 million neurons, or 66 percent of it, located in its eight arms.

Octopus arms move with incredible dexterity, bending, twisting, and curling with nearly infinite degrees of freedom. New research from the University of Chicago revealed that the nervous system ...

Octopus arms move with incredible dexterity, bending, twisting, and curling with nearly infinite degrees of freedom. New research from the University of Chicago revealed that the nervous system ...

This provides each arm with a degree of autonomy, allowing an octopus to use some arms to perform one task while also carrying out another, entirely different activity with other arms.

News Release 28-Nov-2022 Unique features of octopus create ‘an entirely new way of designing a nervous system’ Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Chicago Medical Center ...

The octopus nervous system is among the most unusual on Earth. Unlike in other intelligent animals, it's highly distributed, with a significant proportion of its 500 million-odd neurons spread ...

Unique features of octopus create 'an entirely new way of designing a nervous system' Date: November 28, 2022 Source: University of Chicago Medical Center Summary: A new study on the intramuscular ...