An iconic psychology experiment has been used to trick octopuses. The rubber hand illusion has been used on people – and some other mammals – to fool them into thinking a fake hand is their own. And now it turns out octopuses are fooled just as easily. Researchers used a fake tentacle to recreate the trick – giving us a deeper insight into how octopus brains work.
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