2016-04-22
In this issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Onur Güntürkün and Thomas Bugnyar discuss how the brains of birds and mammals evolved in parallel for about 300 million years to achieve comparable cognitive abilities despite quite different neural architectures, most notably the lack of an avian cortex. They present anatomical and functional evidence that the avian pallium serves the functional role of the layered mammalian cortex. Finally, they discuss how the commonalities between avian and mammalian circuits may reveal the necessary ingredients to support intelligent behavior.
In this issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Onur Güntürkün and Thomas Bugnyar discuss how the brains of birds and mammals evolved in parallel for about 300 million years to achieve comparable cognitive abilities despite quite different neural architectures, most notably the lack of an avian cortex. They present anatomical and functional evidence that the avian pallium serves the functional role of the layered mammalian cortex. Finally, they discuss how the commonalities between avian and mammalian circuits may reveal the necessary ingredients to support intelligent behavior.
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