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- Andreas Nieder and his team showed carrion crows decide visual motion in 235 ms, twice as fast as humans.
- The crows, Iggy and Lemmy, pecked left or right on a touchscreen to earn mealworms.
- Their average decision accuracy was 74 percent across thousands of trials.
- Neural activity from 248 nidopallium caudolaterale neurons predicted each choice as early as 70 ms after stimulus onset.