Brain – *Brain is part of the central nervous system. *.Birds of superior intelligence, such as parrots and crows, have larger brains. *Recent studies at the University of Washington proved that male birds living with females have brains 15 to 20 percent larger than birds living alone or with other males (Scientific American, January 1998). *The brain of pigeon (Fig. 20. 18) is built on the general vertebrate plan. *It is short and rounded. …show more content…
*They are poorly developed. ii) Cerebral hemispheres – *Cerebral hemispheres are large and smooth and are located just behind the olfactory lobes.. *Cerebral hemispheres are mainly composed of corpora striata which is a solid mass of tissue. *Corpora striata control the reflex behaviours. *The corpora striata have three regions – the upper hyperstriatum, the middle mesostratiatum and the lower palaeostriatum. *It is the characteristic feature of avian brain. *The two corpora striata are connected by an anterior
reptilian lung The most distinctive features of birds is their lungs. Bird’s lungs are small and rigid, but are are highly efficient and meet the metabolic needs of flight. Respiration in birds is unique and involves a set of nine air sacs packed between muscles. The air sacs contain blood vessels and do not undertake oxygen exchange, but rather function like bellows to move air through the lungs. While fossils generally do not preserve soft tissue such as lungs, a very fine theropod dinosaur fossil has been found in which the outline of the visceral cavity has been well preserved.
It sends information for sleep, hearing, taste, and even eye movement. Corpus Callosum: The corpus callosum connects both hemispheres of the brain and allows them to relay messages between one another. People who have a severed corpus callosum can essentially function as 2 different people at the same time, with the left half of their body performing one task, and the right half another. Frontal Lobe: As the largest lobe in our brain, this lobe play a significant role in personality and impulse control.
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Nonetheless, our group observed specific locations in the skull that over time, changed among species. The following methodology will include how to observe or examine the different locations that were relevant to the study. By looking for the widest part in the back of the skull the location of the maximum skull breath can be identified. The degree of postorbital constriction can be recognized by observing the space behind the brow/supraorbital ridge. The zygomatic flare can be examined by evaluating how wide is the zygomatic bone.
The study focuses on the number of neurons in the brains of more than two dozen species of birds ranging in size from tiny to large. The new study provides an explanation that birds can perform complex behaviors because birds forebrains contain a lot more neurons than anyone had previously thought. The study provides an answer that anatomists have been questioning, which is, how can birds with their small brains perform complicated cognitive behaviors? The study of the bird brain interests me because the size of the bird brain is compared to the size of an unshelled walnut (depending on species of bird), versus the human brain which is about three-four pounds (average size of adult human). The human brain is so much bigger than the bird brain and it contains so many more neurons making humans so much smarter than the bird species or any other animal
The other key development is hominin brain encephalization. As our extreme encephalization occurs after the onset of bipedalism we can assume that bipedalism was a prerequisite. The increased meat diet of the bipedal H. erectus coincides with increased encephalization. There are a number of theories as to why encephalization occurred. For example, using hands for toolmaking and other complex activities in turn selects for increased encephalization.
Today, the brain is said to be the most energy consuming and powerful organ in the body. Not only has the cranium grown tremendously over the years, but the brain processes have intensified as well. Cáceres states that with the various studies made by professionals to distinguish the human brain from a non-human primate’s brain, we have been given proof of the advanced neurological processes that the primate brain contains. (Cáceres, 2003) Along with these processes, primate intelligence has advanced through the development of cultural interactions, advanced tool and food technology, and through the progression of movement.
Parts of the brain and their functions: the frontal brain with controls the higher mental processes. The midbrain, which controls emotions, motivations and the limbic system. The hindbrain which controls movement, and lower mental functions. 3. Split brain: when the corpus callosum is split it destroys the connection between the left and right side of the brain.
This association is what Griffin observed and the heron learned from other organisms in its species. The use of
Those impulses are turned into sound in the brain. 5. Name and describe the major structures of the middle ear. The middle ear contains three tiny bones known as the ossicles: malleus, incus, and stapes.
The hypothalamus communicates to each lobe differently. The hypothalamo-hypophyseal tract system is the specific way the hypothalamus communicates with the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland. It is a nervous system connection with direct connecting neurons. The neurons are located in the hypothalamus and then axons extend down to the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland. The neurons produce hormones that slide down the axons and end up in the posterior lobe.
The limbic system is a complex set of structures that are above and around the thalamus, and just under the bark. It includes the hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala, and many other nearby areas. It seems to be primarily responsible for our emotional life, and has much to do with the formation of memories. Hypothalamus: The hypothalamus is a small part of the brain located just below the thalamus on both sides of the third ventricle. (The ventricles are areas within the crust that are filled with cerebrospinal fluid and connected to the spinal fluid).
A second study was conducted on another African – grey parrot named Alex, in this study the parrot was taught to use English vocalizations to identify, demand or decline or simply comment upon over a range of 80 different objects. These objects were of a variety of colours, shapes and materials (Pepperberg 1987). The bird revealed a fundamental ability of categorization (Pepperberg 1983), and can identify quantity for groups of up to 6 objects. Alex also gained functional use of phrases such as “come here”, “no”, “I want X” and “wanna go Y” where X and Y were appropriate objects or locations (Pepperberg 1987). As this study offered the parrot a wider variety of different objects to choose from with different criteria applying to the objects
The fibres first pass in a dorsomedial direction and then loop over the abducent nerve and produce a small round swelling in the floor of the 4th ventricle. The superior salivary and lacrimatory nuclei of the facial nerve are also present in the lower half of the of pons. These nuclei are small collections of cholinergic nerve cells in dorso-lateral reticular formation. The neuron of these two nuclei seems to be intermingled with each other.
This suggestion works in accordance to the evidence that suggests that the brain is predisposed to have certain areas specifically designed for language processing and development. For example, Gazzaniga (1986) stated that language processing occurs in the left hemisphere of the