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...

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Autor principal: Chappell, Jackie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325832/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27663863
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-016-0247-9
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