Bird brains: does absolute size matter?

Jackie Chappell

doi:10.3758/s13420-016-0247-9

Bird brains: does absolute size matter?

Jackie Chappell

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Abstract

Kabadayi and colleagues (Royal Society Open Science, 3, 160104-7, 2016) 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1–2
Journal	Learning & Behavior
Volume	45
Issue number	1
Early online date	23 Sept 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-016-0247-9
Publication status	Published - Mar 2017

Keywords

Cognitive ethology
Comparative cognition
Brain size
Birds
Self-regulation

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