Researchers observed the common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) routinely wave its arms in four flashy gestures. Cuttlefish wave their expressive arms in four distinctive dancelike signals—potentially ...

During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren’t stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces must ...

Can you remember what you had for dinner last weekend? That ability is a function of episodic memory, and how well we can recall the time and place of specific events typically declines with age.

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A new study has revealed that common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) are capable of delayed gratification, a trait previously ...

Even in old age, cuttlefish remain as mentally sharp as ever. Ageing mammals — especially humans — gradually lose their ability to remember specific events. To find out whether the same is true of ...

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Cuttlefish can remember what, where, and when specific things happened - right up to their last few days of life, researchers have found. Cuttlefish can remember what, where, and when specific things ...