New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Congratulations @mollfw.bsky.social on this cool paper!

I'm delighted to share that, together with @crowbrain.bsky.social our paper on time estimation in crows is now published in @natcomms.nature.com We found that crows not only keep track of time, but individual neurons prefer different time durations 🐦⏱️🧠 Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm usually not very active here, but good news: Together with @milliejohnston.bsky.social, our paper on time estimation in #crows got published in @natcomms.nature.com today! We found crow neurons track time like a stopwatch — without a cortex! 🐦⏱️🧠 #SciComm #Science 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Without urgent action, a species that helps hold rainforests together might be gone for good. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/yes-spe...

We know how visual objects influence spatial tuning in the hippocampus. A new study from @batwoman123.bsky.social shows that auditory objects can be egocentrically or allocentrically encoded in the hippocampus of echolocating bats 🦇. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social

The new issue is out👉https://www.cell.com/cell/current ⁠ On the cover, Eliav et al. reveal that hippocampal replays in bats flying in very large, naturalistic environments were highly fragmented and short, depicting trajectories covering only a small portion of the environment size.

🚨New in @cellpress.bsky.social We discovered that hippocampal replays in natural-scale environments are highly fragmented, not full-length. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 👇🧵

I second everything @shakedpa.bsky.social said (though I'm also biased of course 😃) @mitpress.bsky.social #neuroscience #naturalneuroscience #science 🧪

Nature Communications Allocentric and egocentric spatial representations coexist in rodent medial entorhinal cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy head direction cell day y’all! On this day, 41 years ago, Jim Ranck recorded the first “HD cell” in his Brooklyn lab in 1984. Jim shared the news with the world at SFN that year, showing a video of the cell’s firing on a TV he somehow acquired and brought to his poster… (1/3)

We value things differently depending on the situation. A fascinating paper shows that the hippocampus feeds contextual information to the prefrontal cortex by altering theta wave phase alignment, enabling the PFC to adjust value judgments accordingly. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

New paper today! We show that homing pigeons do not have an enlarged hippocampus when compared with other pigeons. They do, however, have higher hippocampal neuronal density and this could be important for navigation. #neuroskyence #ornithology #anatomy link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sharing as my personal bookmark - feel free to let me know your thoughts if you('ve) read it 😁

I trained #crows to (kind of) "count" up to 5. Different neurons take over every step of the counting process, from recognising the #number to producing it. 🧪🧠🐦‍⬛ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NeuralRecordings in butterflies?! Very excited to give this a read (& and a share) 🤩

Our work on neural recordings in flying bats on an island. @shakedpa.bsky.social is a great speaker and it's fun work! 🦇🧠🧪

Zebrafish can sense numbers! 🔢🐟 In my first preLight post, I have highlighted the work from Peter Luu & colleagues revealing early emergence of number-selective neurons in larval zebrafish. #preprint #companyofbiologist #zebrafishologist Take a look! ⬇️ 👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/n...

Just In case people need to follow people in neuroscience focused on natural behaviors and the brains of cool non-trad animals! Please join let me know if you wanna be added. go.bsky.app/AcLpM4h

Interesting 🤔 Beran, M.J., Englund, M.D., Haseltine, E.L. et al. Monkeys overestimate connected arrays in a relative quantity task: A reverse connectedness illusion. Atten Percept Psychophys (2024). doi.org/10.3758/s134...

I do like all those things, and particularly the animation 👏

Updated Spatial & Numerical Cognition pack — still looking for more junior scientists 🔭🧪 go.bsky.app/4CXmSZM

Interesting new review in TINS comparing hippocampal and central complex processing for spatial navigation. #neuroethology #neuroskyence www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Behavioral and Neuronal Representation of Numerosity Zero in the Crow Maximilian E. Kirschhock, Helen M. Ditz and Andreas Nieder Journal of Neuroscience 2 June 2021, 41 (22) 4889-4896

Numerical Representation for Action in Crows Obeys the Weber-Fechner Law journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....