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Functional connectivity further indicated that network organization became sparser under information-rich conditions, suggesting that pigeons selectively extract nonredundant cues rather than processing all dimensions equally. Guided by these biological findings, the present research developed the Avian-inspired Feature Gating Model (AFGM). By incorporating independent channel gating and sparse regularization, AFGM formalizes this biological feature-weighting strategy. The model achieved a modest performance advantage over the HVE baseline on fine-grained recognition tasks. 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