Corvid Planning and Working Memory: What Raven, Jay and Crow Experiments Show
Explore corvid planning and working-memory experiments, future tool use, food caching and crow neurons, with clear limits on human-like interpretations.
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Animal Behavior
How animal brains produce learning, memory, perception and social understanding. Comparative neuroscience and cognition research explained with study methods, sample sizes and limits, without overstating what animal experiments show about human brains.
Do Cats Recognize Their Names? What Playback Experiments Actually Show
Do cats recognize their names? Explore playback studies, ear and head responses, sample exclusions and why recognizing a sound differs from coming when called.
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Bumblebee Social Learning: What a Two-Step Puzzle Reveals About Insect Cognition
How did five of fifteen bumblebees learn a two-step puzzle? Explore the social-learning experiment, its controls and the limits of claims about culture.
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Cuttlefish Memory: What Aging and Food-Choice Experiments Actually Show
Explore cuttlefish memory studies, including what–where–when tasks and delayed rewards, with sample sizes, methods and limits on human comparisons.
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The Adult Fruit-Fly Connectome: A Wiring Map Is a Starting Point
In October 2024, a Princeton-led collaboration reported a detailed wiring map of an adult fruit-fly brain. The work represented a major advance in connect
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Editorial illustration of a dog viewing a human facial expression; not a photograph of the Vienna study, its participants, or its scanning setup.
How Dogs Read Human Faces: What the 2026 Vienna Brain-Scan Study Showed
A University of Vienna study published in iScience in August 2026 scanned the brains of pet dogs shown photos of
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