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This project investigates the cognitive abilities of pigeons, focusing on their executive functions, memory, and consciousness. By employing advanced techniques like fMRI and optogenetics, the research aims to uncover similarities and differences in the neural mechanisms of cognition between birds and mammals.
Mammals and birds evolved vastly different forebrains.
While mammals have a cortex and can reach large brain weights, bird brains are very small and are constituted by seemingly homogeneous nuclear clusters.
These glaring anatomical differences cast a dim prospect on avian cognition.
However, the last years showed that several avian taxa are cognitively on par with apes and show abilities like planning, theory-of-mind, and mirror-self-recognition.
How is that possible?
Our inability to answer th…
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