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- German researchers led by Andreas Nieder showed carrion crows decide visual motion tasks in 235 ms, twice primate speed.
- The crows, Iggy and Lemmy, completed thousands of trials and chose the correct direction in 74 percent of them.
- Neural recordings from 248 NCL neurons predicted the birds’ choices as early as 70 ms after stimulus onset.
- The NCL region in birds functions comparably to the primate prefrontal cortex.