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Neurons selective to the number of visual items in the corvid songbird endbrain [Neuroscience]

H. M. Ditz, A. Nieder.
It is unknown whether anatomical specializations in the endbrains of different vertebrates determine the neuronal code to represent numerical quantity. Therefore, we recorded single-neuron activity from the endbrain of crows trained to judge the number of items in displays. Many neurons were tuned for numerosities irrespective of the physical appearance...