TY  - JOUR
AU  - Stacho, M.
AU  - Herold, C.
AU  - Rook, N.
AU  - Wagner, H.
AU  - Axer, Markus
AU  - Amunts, Katrin
AU  - Güntürkün, O.
TI  - A cortex-like canonical circuit in the avian forebrain
JO  - Science
VL  - 369
IS  - 6511
SN  - 0036-8075
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Moses King
M1  - FZJ-2020-01997
SP  - eabc5534
PY  - 2020
AB  - Basic principles of bird and mammal brainsMammals can be very smart. They also have a brain with a cortex. It has thus often been assumed that the advanced cognitive skills of mammals are closely related to the evolution of the cerebral cortex. However, birds can also be very smart, and several bird species show amazing cognitive abilities. Although birds lack a cerebral cortex, they do have pallium, and this is considered to be analogous, if not homologous, to the cerebral cortex. An outstanding feature of the mammalian cortex is its layered architecture. In a detailed anatomical study of the bird pallium, Stacho et al. describe a similarly layered architecture. Despite the nuclear organization of the bird pallium, it has a cyto-architectonic organization that is reminiscent of the mammalian cortex.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:32973004
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000574653300026
DO  - DOI:10.1126/science.abc5534
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/875386
ER  -