I often like to remind readers that correlation does not equal causation. Just because scientists find a link between X and Y doesn’t mean X causes Y, especially when the study is small and needs way more follow-up before anyone should treat it like gospel. That said, as a birder and the husband of an even more intense birder, I am choosing to 100 percent believe a study of 58 Canadians that found birders have denser brains that make us better at thinking and stuff. According to the research published in JNeurosci, the Journal of Neuroscience , experienced birdwatchers show increased density in brain regions tied to attention, perception, memory, and object recognition. Videos by VICE Not only that, but MRIs actually showed a structural difference between the brains of novice birders and expert birders.…