Bird brains: Does absolute size matter?
Kabadayi, Taylor, von Bayern, and Osvath (2016, Royal Society Open Science, 3, 160104) recently showed that among birds, absolute brain size predicts performance on a motor self-control task thought to be important for cognition. However, birds performed at an equivalent level to much larger-brained primates, opening up the debate about brain size and cognition.
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. j.m.chappell@bham.ac.uk.
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D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D003071:Cognition; D009929:Organ Size
Birds; Brain size; Cognitive ethology; Comparative cognition; Self-regulation
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