附：英文原文

 

Title:A cortex-like canonical circuit in the avian forebrain

 

Author:Martin Stacho1,2,*,†, View ORCID ProfileChristina Herold3,†, Noemi Rook1, View ORCID ProfileHermann Wagner

 

Issue&Volume:25 Sep 2020

 

Abstract: Although the avian pallium seems to lack an organization akin to that of the cerebral cortex, birds exhibit extraordinary cognitive skills that are comparable to those of mammals. We analyzed the fiber architecture of the avian pallium with three-dimensional polarized light imaging and subsequently reconstructed local and associative pallial circuits with tracing techniques. We discovered an iteratively repeated, column-like neuronal circuitry across the layer-like nuclear boundaries of the hyperpallium and the sensory dorsal ventricular ridge. These circuits are connected to neighboring columns and, via tangential layer-like connections, to higher associative and motor areas. Our findings indicate that this avian canonical circuitry is similar to its mammalian counterpart and might constitute the structural basis of neuronal computation.

 

DOI:DOI: 10.1126/science.abc5534

 

Source: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6511/eabc5534