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  2. Cat intelligence - Wikipedia

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    The domestic cat is attributed a value of between 1 and 1.71 (for comparison: human values range between 7.44 and 7.8). [1] [3] The largest brains in the family Felidae are those of the tigers in Java and Bali. [5] It is debated whether there exists a causal relationship between brain size and intelligence in vertebrates. Most experiments ...

  3. List of animals by number of neurons - Wikipedia

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    The following are two lists of animals ordered by the size of their nervous system. ... with 16 billion neurons in the cerebral cortex. [2] [1] ... Cat: 760,000,000 ...

  4. Brain size - Wikipedia

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    The size of the brain is a frequent topic of study within the fields of anatomy, biological anthropology, animal science and evolution.Measuring brain size and cranial capacity is relevant both to humans and other animals, and can be done by weight or volume via MRI scans, by skull volume, or by neuroimaging intelligence testing.

  5. Brain–body mass ratio - Wikipedia

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    The relationship between brain-to-body mass ratio and complexity of behaviour is not perfect as other factors also influence intelligence, like the evolution of the recent cerebral cortex and different degrees of brain folding, [6] which increase the surface of the cortex, which is positively correlated in humans to intelligence. The noted ...

  6. Encephalization quotient - Wikipedia

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    Encephalization quotient (EQ), encephalization level (EL), or just encephalization is a relative brain size measure that is defined as the ratio between observed and predicted brain mass for an animal of a given size, based on nonlinear regression on a range of reference species.

  7. Cerebral cortex - Wikipedia

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    The cerebral cortex, also known as the cerebral mantle, [1] is the outer layer of neural tissue of the cerebrum of the brain in humans and other mammals.It is the largest site of neural integration in the central nervous system, [2] and plays a key role in attention, perception, awareness, thought, memory, language, and consciousness.

  8. Neuroscience and intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Another theory of brain size in vertebrates is that it may relate to social rather than mechanical skills. Cortical size relates directly to pair-bonding lifestyle and among primates, cerebral cortex size varies directly with the demands of living in a large complex social network. Compared to other mammals, primates have significantly larger ...

  9. Sulcus (neuroanatomy) - Wikipedia

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    Sulci, the grooves, and gyri, the folds or ridges, make up the folded surface of the cerebral cortex. Larger or deeper sulci are also often termed fissures. The folded cortex creates a larger surface area for the brain in humans and other larger mammals, without the need of increasing the size of the skull. [1]