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Newfound brain structure explains why some birds are so smart—and maybe even self-aware

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Virginia MorellNever before has “bird brain” been such a compliment: In recent years, birds have been found to make tools, understand abstract concepts, and even recognize paintings by Monet and Picasso.

But their lack of a neocortex—the area of the mammalian brain where working memory, planning, and problem solving happen—has long puzzled scientists.

Now, researchers have found a previously unknown arrangement of microcircuits in the avian brain that may be analogous to the mammalian neocortex.

And in a separate study, other researchers have linked this same region to conscious thought.The two papers are already being hailed as groundbreaking.

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