cognition

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• Octopus Intelligence: How a Soft-Bodied Mind Works
  Octopuses have about 500 million neurons, most of them in their arms, and solve puzzles, use tools, and escape tanks. Explore how their alien intelligence works.
• The Abacus and Mental Calculation
  How the abacus works, why bead arithmetic outperforms electronic calculators for trained users on speed, and what it reveals about the human number sense.
• Working Memory
  The small pool of information the mind actively holds and manipulates, and the classic multicomponent model of how it works.