Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37369211›Full record

ArticleCurrent biology : CB2023

Crows flexibly apply statistical inferences based on previous experience.

Melissa Johnston, Katharina F Brecht, Andreas Nieder

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Melissa JohnstonAnimal Physiology Unit, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: milliej.johnston@gmail.com.
Katharina F BrechtAnimal Physiology Unit, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
Andreas NiederAnimal Physiology Unit, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: andreas.nieder@uni-tuebingen.de.
University of Tübingen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Statistical inference, the ability to use limited information to draw conclusions about the likelihood of an event, is critical for decision-making during uncertainty. The ability to make statistical inferences was thought to be a uniquely human skill requiring verbal instruction and mathematical reasoning.

Indexed as

CrowsAnimalsBehavior, AnimalHumansProblem SolvingUncertaintyanalog magnitude systemcorvid songbirdCorvus coronedistance effectprobabilityrewardsize effectstatistical learning

Identifiers

PMID37369211
OpenAlexW4382050984

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.