Insight without cortex: Lessons from the avian brain

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 475-483

  Kirsch, Janina A ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a   Rose, Jonas ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birds; Causal reasoning; Convergent evolution; Episodic memory; Insight; Object permanence; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CAUSAL REASONING; COGNITION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; INTROSPECTION; MAMMAL; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OBJECT PERMANENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF CONCEPT; THEORY OF MIND; TOOL USE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; CROWS; EVOLUTION; MAMMALS; MEMORY; PROSENCEPHALON;

EID: 43849101108     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.03.018     Document Type: Article

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