Read that as Covids and thought 'Wait…wat?"

This year needs to end…

This is the best summary I could come up with:

After putting a pair of them to the test, an international team of researchers saw that the birds’ working memory operates the same way as that of humans and higher primates.

Working memory is where we hang on to items for a brief period of time—like a postal code looked up in one browser tab and typed into a second.

Attractor dynamics give the brain an assist with working memory by taking sensory input, such as color, and categorizing it.

If a hypothetical customer was browsing paint swatches for Sandstone (a taupe) and London Fog (a gray) in addition to Fire Lily, remembering each color accurately would become even more difficult because of the increased demands on working memory.

To find out if corvids process stimuli using short-term memory with attractor dynamics, the researchers subjected two jackdaws to a variety of tests that involved remembering colors.

The only difference is that we humans would be able to read the color names, and the jackdaws only found out they were wrong when they didn’t get their favorite treat.

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