{"id":1214414,"date":"2023-12-23T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1214414"},"modified":"2023-12-23T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:00:28","slug":"corvids-seem-to-handle-temporary-memories-the-way-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1214414","title":{"rendered":"Corvids seem to handle temporary memories the way we do"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> A jackdaw tries to remember what color it was thinking of. (credit: Frans Buiter \/ 500px<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Humans tend to think that we are the most intelligent life-forms on Earth, and that we\u2019re largely followed by our close relatives such as chimps and gorillas. But there are some areas of cognition in which homo sapiens<\/i> and other primates are not unmatched. What other animal\u2019s brain could possibly operate at a human\u2019s level, at least when it comes to one function? Birds\u2014again.<\/p>\n

This is far from the first time that bird species such as corvids<\/a> and parrots have shown that they can think like us in certain ways. Jackdaws are clever corvids that belong to the same family as crows and ravens. After putting a pair of them to the test, an international team of researchers saw that the birds\u2019 working memory<\/a> operates the same way as that of humans and higher primates. All of these species use what\u2019s termed \u201cattractor dynamics,\u201d where they organize information into specific categories.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for them, that means they also make the same mistakes we do. “Jackdaws (Corvus monedula<\/i>) have similar behavioral biases as humans; memories are less precise and more biased as memory demands increase,\u201d the researchers said in a study<\/a> recently published in Communications Biology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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