Finding underscores that animals
beyond humans and primates show abstract intelligence
Date: December 4, 2017
Source: University of Iowa
Pigeons aren't so bird-brained
after all.
New research at the University of
Iowa shows that pigeons can discriminate the abstract concepts of space and
time -- and seem to use a different region of the brain than humans and
primates to do so. In experiments, pigeons were shown on a computer screen a
static horizontal line and had to judge its length or the amount of time it was
visible to them. Pigeons judged longer lines to also have longer duration and
judged lines longer in duration to also be longer in length.
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