Categorising: Inside the crow's brain

Brian Butterworth

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.022

Categorising: Inside the crow's brain

Curr Biol. 2023 Jun 19;33(12):R694-R695. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.022.

Author

Brian Butterworth¹

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK. Electronic address: b.butterworth@ucl.ac.uk.

PMID: 37339600
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.022

Abstract

Crows can learn to categorise line lengths into experimenter-defined categories. The crow's brain codes and recodes line lengths in individual neurons in the nidopallium caudolaterale, part of the telencephalon.

MeSH terms

Animals
Brain / physiology
Crows*
Learning
Neurons / physiology
Telencephalon / physiology