Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0057596

Zusammenfassung

The fundamental aim of cognitive neuroscience is to understand how the brain generates cognitive, intelligent behavior. Traditionally, it was achieved by studying humans and our close relatives. This approach goes back to a linear view of brain evolution which implies that an animal's intelligence is determined by its kinship to humans: no bird can be as intelligent as our cousin the sheep for instance. Indeed, relative to the evolution of intelligence, the lines of birds and mammals separated very early. This, however, does not mean that birds are not intelligent. It rather means that...