Scientists discover never-before-seen brain wave after reading octopus' minds
Octopuses possess a brain wave that has never been seen before in animals, along with others similar to those found in humans, first-of-their-kind brain recordings reveal.
"Some of these activity patterns have some similarity to activity patterns observed in the mammalian hippocampus, also a memory center," first-author Tamar Gutnick , a visiting scientist at the University of Naples, told Live Science."But we also observed unique patterns, 2Hz activity, that were never reported in other animals.
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