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Avian brains and a new understanding of vertebrate brain evolution

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, February 2005
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5 news outlets
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5 blogs
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2 policy sources
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12 X users
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13 Wikipedia pages

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Title
Avian brains and a new understanding of vertebrate brain evolution
Published in
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, February 2005
DOI 10.1038/nrn1606
Pubmed ID
Authors

Erich D. Jarvis, Onur Güntürkün, Laura Bruce, András Csillag, Harvey Karten, Wayne Kuenzel, Loreta Medina, George Paxinos, David J. Perkel, Toru Shimizu, Georg Striedter, J. Martin Wild, Gregory F. Ball, Jennifer Dugas-Ford, Sarah E. Durand, Gerald E. Hough, Scott Husband, Lubica Kubikova, Diane W. Lee, Claudio V. Mello, Alice Powers, Connie Siang, Tom V. Smulders, Kazuhiro Wada, Stephanie A. White, Keiko Yamamoto, Jing Yu, Anton Reiner, Ann B. Butler

Abstract

We believe that names have a powerful influence on the experiments we do and the way in which we think. For this reason, and in the light of new evidence about the function and evolution of the vertebrate brain, an international consortium of neuroscientists has reconsidered the traditional, 100-year-old terminology that is used to describe the avian cerebrum. Our current understanding of the avian brain - in particular the neocortex-like cognitive functions of the avian pallium - requires a new terminology that better reflects these functions and the homologies between avian and mammalian brains.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 26 2%
Germany 17 2%
Brazil 6 <1%
United Kingdom 6 <1%
Chile 5 <1%
Japan 3 <1%
China 3 <1%
France 3 <1%
Canada 3 <1%
Other 21 2%
Unknown 966 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 239 23%
Researcher 216 20%
Student > Master 125 12%
Student > Bachelor 120 11%
Professor 67 6%
Other 184 17%
Unknown 108 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 466 44%
Neuroscience 181 17%
Psychology 88 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 31 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 29 3%
Other 114 11%
Unknown 150 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 88. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 December 2023.
All research outputs
#484,967
of 25,397,764 outputs
Outputs from Nature Reviews Neuroscience
#225
of 2,769 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#764
of 158,191 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Reviews Neuroscience
#2
of 18 outputs
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