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Alexandra K. Schnell

2 papers in the library · 399 citations · publishing 2020-2023

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The Inner Lives of Cephalopods

Integrative and Comparative Biology September 26, 2023 Alexandra K. Schnell, Nathaniel R Farndale Wright, Nicola Susan Clayton 5 citations

The minds of cephalopods have captivated scientists for millennia, yet the extent that we can understand their subjective experiences remains contested. In this article, we consider the sum of our scientific progress towards understanding the inner lives of cephalopods. Here, we outline the behavioral responses to specific experimental paradigms that are helping us to reveal their subjective...

Dimensions of Animal Consciousness.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences August 20, 2020 Jonathan Birch, Alexandra K. Schnell, Nicola S. Clayton 394 citations

How does consciousness vary across the animal kingdom? Are some animals 'more conscious' than others? This article presents a multidimensional framework for understanding interspecies variation in states of consciousness. The framework distinguishes five key dimensions of variation: perceptual richness, evaluative richness, integration at a time, integration across time, and self-consciousness....