Associative learning: box jellyfish learns to avoid bumps

Ken Cheng

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.025

Associative learning: box jellyfish learns to avoid bumps

Ken Cheng

School of Natural Sciences

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Abstract

Operant conditioning — learning to do something for a desired outcome — has never been convincingly demonstrated in Cnidaria. A study now shows that box jellyfish, Tripedalia cystophora, can learn to avoid bumping into an obstacle based on visual cues.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R1000-R1001
Number of pages	2
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	33
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.025
Publication status	Published - 9 Oct 2023

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