Brain Networks Laboratory (Choe Lab)

[Tool][Choe] Crows understand the concept of tool value!

Dec 25, 2021

New Caledonian crows can understand the concept of tool value!  SCIENCEALERT.COM Crows Are So Smart They Seem to Understand The Concept of Tool Value A new study has demonstrated crows can assign value to their tools just like we do. 

https://www.sciencealert.com/crows-are-so-smart-they-understand-the-concept-of-tool-value

Notes:

Our own lab’s latest work on tool construction is closely related to this. Randall Reams and Yoonsuck Choe. Emergence of tool construction in an articulated limb controlled by evolved neural circuits. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pages 642-649, 2017.

https://people.engr.tamu.edu/choe/choe/ftp/publications/reams-ijcnn17-preprint.pdf

Here’s a demo:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W-Vj5A-HFUrFoTosS0Bkk3ezZa9ZK_Z0/view


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