2025

Video shows a carrion crow flexibly correcting small performance errors while using a stick tool to retrieve a food reward.
- Moll, F.W., Würzler, J., Nieder, A. (2025).
Learned Precision Tool Use in Carrion Crows.
Current Biology, 35(19), 4845-4852.
- Moll*, F.W., Kersten*, Y., Erdle, S., Nieder, A. (2025). *Co-first author.
Exploring anatomical links between the crow’s nidopallium caudolaterale and its song system.
Journal of Comparative Neurology, 533(2), e70028.
- Liao, D.A., Moll, F.W., Nieder, A. (2025).
Bridging the fields of cognition and birdsong with corvids.
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 90, 102965.
2024
- Kersten*, Y., Moll*, F.W., Erdle, S., Nieder, A. (2024). *Co-first author.
Input and output connections of the crow nidopallium caudolaterale.
eNeuro, 11(4).
2023
- Moll, F.W., Kranz, D., Corredera Asensio, A., Elmaleh, M., Ackert-Smith, L.A., Long, M.A. (2023).
Thalamus drives vocal onsets in the zebra finch courtship song.
Nature, 616(7955), 132–136.
Video shows the activity of zebra finch premotor neurons while the bird is singing head-fixed under a 2-photon microscope (audio on!).
- Moll, F., Long, M.A. (2023).
Birdsong sequences initiated by a small cluster of cells in the brain.
Nature.
2021
- Elmaleh, M., Kranz, D., Corredera Asensio, A., Moll, F.W., Long, M.A. (2021).
Sleep replay reveals premotor circuit structure for a skilled behavior.
Neuron, 109(23), 3851–3861.e4.
2020
- Egger, R., Tupikov, Y., Elmaleh, M., Katlowitz, K.A., Benezra, S.E., Picardo, M.A., Moll, F.W., Kornfeld, J., Jin, D.Z., Long M.A. (2020).
Local axonal conduction shapes the spatiotemporal properties of neural sequences.
Cell, 183(2), 537–548.e12.
2017
- Moll, F.W., Nieder, A. (2017).
Modality-invariant audio-visual association coding in crow endbrain neurons.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 137, 65–76.
2015
- Moll, F.W., Nieder, A. (2015).
Cross-modal associative mnemonic signals in crow endbrain neurons.
Current Biology, 25(16), 2196–2201.
2014
- Moll, F.W., Nieder, A. (2014).
The long and the short of it: Rule-based relative length discrimination in carrion crows, Corvus corone.
Behavioural Processes, 107, 142–149.










