An embodied view of octopus neurobiology.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Current Biology

• Publication date

  2012-10-23

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.001PMID 23098601
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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