Wascher CAF. Cognition: Crows are natural statisticians.
Curr Biol 2023;
33:R808-R810. [PMID:
37552946 DOI:
10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.073]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/10/2023]
Abstract
A new study shows that carrion crows use memorized reward associations in a combinatorial way to apply relative probabilistic information to optimize reward outcome. This for the first time shows that a corvid species can flexibly apply statistical inference during decision making.
Collapse