Research
Crows can make decisions twice as fast as humans, scientists discover
The Brief
- Researchers at the University of Tübingen found that crows make visual decisions about twice as quickly as humans and monkeys.
- Crows took about 235 milliseconds on average to identify the direction in the visual task described.
- The report is based on the ScienceDaily summary of the study, published on 2026-11-12.
Why it matters
The result suggests that fast visual decision-making is not limited to primates, giving comparative data on bird cognition and the speed of neural processing.
Who’s affected
- neuroscientists and animal cognition researchers
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Crows may be even smarter than we thought, and their brains are astonishingly fast. Researchers at the University of Tübingen discovered that crows can make visual decisions twice as quickly as humans and monkeys, taking just 235 milliseconds on average to identify the direction…
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Study findings on crows' visual decision speed reported by ScienceDaily
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Crows can make decisions twice as fast as humans, scientists discover