Crook Lab PI Robyn Crook commented in The Atlantic on a new study showing that cuttlefish in the early stages of senescence can form and retain complex memories. In this new work (in which the Crook Lab was not involved), common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) were able to retain complex learned associations between food type, feeding location and time-of-day even once they had begun to decline due to senescence. This interesting behavioral work may lead to new understanding of mechanisms that underly terminal decline in brain function in diverse species, including humans and other mammals.