Neuroscience
From tomorrow's New York Times:
Minds of Their Own: Birds Gain Respect
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE
The New York Times
Published: February 1, 2005
Birdbrain has long been a colloquial term of ridicule. The common notion is that birds' brains are simple, or so scientists thought and taught for many years. But that notion has increasingly been called into question as crows and parrots, among other birds, have shown what appears to be behavior as intelligent as that of chimpanzees.
The clash of simple brain and complex behavior has led some neuroscientists to create a new map of the avian brain.
Today, in the journal Nature Neuroscience Reviews, an international group of avian experts is issuing what amounts to a manifesto. Nearly everything written in anatomy textbooks about the brains of birds is wrong, they say. The avian brain is as complex, flexible and inventive as any mammalian brain, they argue, and it is time to adopt a more accurate nomenclature that reflects a new understanding of the anatomies of bird and mammal brains.
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- Malnutrition And The Brain
From the December issue of The APA Monitor:Feed the birds Songbird study offers new insights into how malnutrition impairs development and cognition By Rachel Adelson The APA Monitor December 2005 Print version: page 16 Slim postpartum pickings for...
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Of potential interest to all, including the broad neuroscience medical and scientific communities: The 29 September 2005 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine includes the full-text content of a review paper about Avian ("Bird Flu") Influenza [H5N1]....
- Better Than Enron: The Enteric Nervous System
From tomorrow's New York Times:The Other Brain Also Deals With Many Woes By HARRIET BROWN The New York Times Published: August 23, 2005 Two brains are better than one. At least that is the rationale for the close - sometimes too close - relationship...
- Privacy In The Time Of Fmri
From tomorrow's New York Times Sunday Magazine: Of Two Minds By JIM HOLT The New York Times Published: May 8, 2005 The human brain is mysterious -- and, in a way, that is a good thing. The less that is known about how the brain works, the more secure...
- Speech/music Development In Birds
Great piece on Fresh Air the other day on bird sounds. Includes info. on bioacoustics and how birds learn their songs. On March 29, Terri Gross interviewed Donald Kroodsma, specialist in the interpretation of bird songs. His new book, The Singing Life...
Neuroscience
Bird Brains!
From tomorrow's New York Times:
Minds of Their Own: Birds Gain Respect
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE
The New York Times
Published: February 1, 2005
Birdbrain has long been a colloquial term of ridicule. The common notion is that birds' brains are simple, or so scientists thought and taught for many years. But that notion has increasingly been called into question as crows and parrots, among other birds, have shown what appears to be behavior as intelligent as that of chimpanzees.
The clash of simple brain and complex behavior has led some neuroscientists to create a new map of the avian brain.
Today, in the journal Nature Neuroscience Reviews, an international group of avian experts is issuing what amounts to a manifesto. Nearly everything written in anatomy textbooks about the brains of birds is wrong, they say. The avian brain is as complex, flexible and inventive as any mammalian brain, they argue, and it is time to adopt a more accurate nomenclature that reflects a new understanding of the anatomies of bird and mammal brains.
[ ... Read the full article ... ] (free registration required)
- Malnutrition And The Brain
From the December issue of The APA Monitor:Feed the birds Songbird study offers new insights into how malnutrition impairs development and cognition By Rachel Adelson The APA Monitor December 2005 Print version: page 16 Slim postpartum pickings for...
- In The Weeklies: H5n1
Of potential interest to all, including the broad neuroscience medical and scientific communities: The 29 September 2005 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine includes the full-text content of a review paper about Avian ("Bird Flu") Influenza [H5N1]....
- Better Than Enron: The Enteric Nervous System
From tomorrow's New York Times:The Other Brain Also Deals With Many Woes By HARRIET BROWN The New York Times Published: August 23, 2005 Two brains are better than one. At least that is the rationale for the close - sometimes too close - relationship...
- Privacy In The Time Of Fmri
From tomorrow's New York Times Sunday Magazine: Of Two Minds By JIM HOLT The New York Times Published: May 8, 2005 The human brain is mysterious -- and, in a way, that is a good thing. The less that is known about how the brain works, the more secure...
- Speech/music Development In Birds
Great piece on Fresh Air the other day on bird sounds. Includes info. on bioacoustics and how birds learn their songs. On March 29, Terri Gross interviewed Donald Kroodsma, specialist in the interpretation of bird songs. His new book, The Singing Life...