Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

The new research, comprising a trio of papers published in Science last week, takes an exceptionally deep dive into the pallium, the bulbous chunk of avian brain that houses neural circuits underlying ...

When it comes to cognitive abilities, birds and mammals may not be as far apart as many assume Birds are often imagined to be less intelligent than mammals, perhaps with the exception of crows and ...

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team led by Prof. Dr Henrik Kaessmann at the ...

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University has investigated how similar ...