{"fact":"Crows have a specialized brain area called the nidopallium caudolaterale (NCL) that plays a key role in their advanced cognitive abilities, such as understanding abstract categories like numbers.","context":"The nidopallium caudolaterale (NCL), an integration centre in the telencephalon of birds, plays a crucial role in representing and maintaining abstract categories and concepts.","source":"Helen M. Ditz; Julia Fechner; Andreas Nieder, Cell-type specific pallial circuits shape categorical tuning responses in the crow telencephalon, 10.1038/s42003-022-03208-z","index":632}