The octopus research group

Gutfreund Y, Flash T, Yarom Y, Segev I, Hochner B (1996). Organization of octopus arm movements: A model system for studying the control of flexible arms. The Journal of Neuroscience. 16(22), 7297-7307.

Gutfreund Y, Flash T, Fiorito G, Hochner B (1998). Patterns of arm muscle activation involved in octopus reaching movements. The Journal of Neuroscience.18(15), 5976-5987.

Matzner H, Gutfreund Y, Hochner B (2000). The neuromuscular system of the flexible arm of the octopus: Physiological characterization. Journal of Neurophysiology.83(3):1315-1328.

German Sumbre, Yoram Gutfreund, Graziano Fiorito, Tamar Flash, Binyamin Hochner (2001). Control of Octopus Arm Extension by a Peripheral Motor Program. Science. 293(5536):1845-1848.

Yoram Yekutieli, German Sumbre, Tamar Flash, Binyamin Hochner (2002). How to move with no rigid skeleton? The octopus has the answers. Biologist. 49(6):250-254.

Rokni D. and Hochner B. (2002). Ionic currents underlying fast action potentials in the obliquely striated muscle cells of the octopus arm. Journal of Neurophysiology. 88(6):3386-3397.

Farchi N. Soreq H. Hochner B. (2003). Chronic acetylcholinesterase overexpression induces multileveled aberrations in neuromuscular physiology. Journal of Physiology. 546(1):165-173

Hochner B, Brown ER, Langella M, Shomrat T, Fiorito G (2003). A learning and memory area in the octopus brain manifests a vertebrate-like long-term potentiation. Journal of Neurophysiology. 90(5):3547-3554. Epub 2003 Aug 13.

Nijholt I, Farchi N, Kye M, Sklan EH, Shoham S, Verbeure B, Owen D, Hochner B, Spiess J, Soreq H, Blank T. (2004). Stress-induced alternative splicing of acetylcholinesterase results in enhanced fear memory and long-term potentiation. Molecular Psychiatry. 9(2):174-183.

Dong H. Xiang YY. Farchi N. Ju W. Wu Y. Chen L. Wang Y. Hochner B. Yang B. Soreq H. Lu WY. (2004) Excessive expression of acetylcholinesterase impairs glutamatergic synaptogenesis in hippocampal neurons. Journal of Neuroscience 24(41):8950-8960.

Hochner B. Octopus nervous system. in: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 3rd Edition. G. Adelman and BH Smith (eds) Elsevier B. V. (2004).

German Sumbre, Graziano Fiorito, Tamar Flash & Binyamin Hochner (2005) Motor control of the octopus flexible arm. Nature. 433(7026):495-596.

Yoram Yekutieli*, Roni Sagiv-Zohar*, Ranit Aharonov, Yaakov Engel, Binyamin Hochner and Tamar Flash (2005) DYNAMIC MODEL OF THE OCTOPUS ARM. I. BIOMECHANICS OF THE OCTOPUS REACHING MOVEMENT. Journal of Neurophysiology

Yoram Yekutieli, Roni Sagiv-Zohar, Binyamin Hochner and Tamar Flash (2005) DYNAMIC MODEL OF THE OCTOPUS ARM. II. CONTROL OF REACHING MOVEMENTS. Journal of Neurophysiology 94: 1459-1468, 2005. First published April 13, 2005; doi:10.1152/jn.00685.2004.

Tamar Flash and Binyamin Hochner (2005) Motor primitives in vertebrates and invertebrates. Current Opinions in Neurobiology 15: 660-666.

German Sumbre, Graziano Fiorito, Tamar Flash and Binyamin Hochner (2006) Octopuses Use a Human-like Strategy to Control Precise Point-to-Point Arm Movements. Current Biology 16: 767-772.

I.D. Walker, D. Dawson, T. Flash, F. Grasso, R. Hanlon, B. Hochner, W.M. Kier, C. Pagano, C.D. Rahn, and Q. Zhang (2005) Continuum Robot Arms Inspired by Cephalopods. Proceedings of SPIE 5804: 303-314.

Kuba MJ, Zullo L, & Hochner B. 2005 Non-associative learning in Octopus vulgaris. Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium Coleoid Cephalopods Through Time. 89-91.

Yekutieli Y, Flash T and Hochner B. Biomechanics; hydroskeletal. New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience MS number 1948. In press. Invited paper .

Yoram Gutfreund, Henry Matzner, Tamar Flash, and Binyamin Hochner (2006) Patterns of Motor Activity in the Isolated Nerve Cord of the Octopus Arm The Biological Bulletin 211: 212-222.

Hochner B. Shomrat T. and Fiorito F. (2006) The octopus: a model for a comparative analysis of the evolution of learning and memory mechanisms. The Biological Bulletin 210: 308-317.

Kuba MJ, Zullo L, Byrne RA & Hochner B. 2006 Visual Habituation in the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris). Geologica – Acta Universitas Cariolinae. 49: 147-150.

Yekutieli Y, Mitelman R, Hochner B and Flash T. Analyzing octopus movements using three dimensional reconstruction. Journal of Neurophysiology 98: 1775-1790, 2007. First published July 11, 2007; doi:10.1152/jn.00739.2006.

Farchi N. Shoham S. Hochner B. and Soreq H. (2007) Impaired hippocampal plasticity and errors in cognitive performance in mice with maladaptive AChE splice site selection. Eur J Neurosci . 25: 87-98.

Farchi N, Ofek K, Podoly E, Dong H, Xiang YY, Diamant S, Livnah O, Li J, Hochner B, Lu WY, Soreq H. (2007) Peripheral site acetylcholinesterase blockade induces RACK1-associated neuronal remodeling. Neurodegener Dis.4(2-3):171-184.

Shomrat T, Zarrella I, Fiorito G, Hochner B (2008) The Octopus Vertical Lobe Modulates Short-Term Learning Rate and Uses LTP to Acquire Long-Term Memory. Current Biology. 18:337-342.

Hochner B (2008) Octopuses. Current Biology. 18:R897.