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. 2023 Oct;46(10):783-785.
doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2023.07.002. Epub 2023 Jul 29.

Neuroscience of cognitive control in crows

Andreas Nieder  1
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Neuroscience of cognitive control in crows

Andreas Nieder. Trends Neurosci. 2023 Oct.

Abstract

Crows, a group of corvid songbird species, show superb behavioral flexibility largely stemming from their advanced cognitive control functions. These functions mainly originate from the associative avian pallium that evolved independently from the mammalian cerebral cortex. This article presents a brief overview of cognitive control functions and their neuronal foundation in crows.

Keywords: behavioral flexibility; corvid songbird; executive functions; inhibitory control; pallium; telencephalon; working memory.

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