{"fact":"Crows possess a brain area called the nidopallium caudolaterale (NCL) that functions similarly to the human prefrontal cortex, allowing them to perform high-level cognitive tasks.","context":"The avian NCL is a multimodal forebrain area that constitutes an integration center which receives input from all sensory modalities and projects to premotor structures, is modulated by dopamine, and interacts with limbic, visceral and memory-related structures. The NCL is therefore considered to be a functional equivalent of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) [22,23] that enables cognitive control in primates.","source":"Andreas Nieder, Inside the corvid brain—probing the physiology of cognition in crows, 10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.02.005","index":12}