Stephen Educating Snails S. Hall, in Science 85 (May 1985), 1101
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Snails are a delicacy to some, a slimy nuisance to others. But to two American scientists, these mollusks are providing tantalizing clues to the mystery of human thought and memory.
Daniel Alkon, of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., has devoted most of his career to studying snails, specifically the genus Hermissenda, writes Hall, a Science 85contributing...