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The significance of the study is explained here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6511/1567 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6511/1567 As I

• pdonis 6y ago
  > this study proves that birds have something equivalent of a cerebral cortex It shows that they have a brain area that is in the same general location, anatomically and developmentally speaking, and that that brain area shows neuron activity that correlates with behavior cues that they see an object they have been trained to look for. > Cerebral cortex is critical for awareness, consciousness, thought, memory, and language. It is in humans. But humans provide a huge amount of behavioral evidence for these capacities, far beyond that brain area showing neuron activity when we give a signal we were trained by conditioning to give when we see something we were trained by conditioning to look for.