A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce ...
The song of a small bird is providing valuable insights into human speech and speech disorders. Scientists have now discovered that some 2,000 genes in a brain region of a male bird called the zebra ...
Like humans who can instantly tell which friend or relative is calling by the timbre of the person's voice, zebra finches have a near-human capacity for language mapping. If songbirds could appear on ...
Every time a zebra finch lands, takes off, or hops on the guitars' strings, the notes play through a nearby amplifier. Courtesy of Ben Mirin The young male zebra finch alighted on the nearest guitar ...
The first songbird to have its genome deciphered may offer new insight into how human children learn to speak. A GLOBAL TEAM OF scientists has sequenced the genome of Australia’s native zebra finch, ...
Male zebra finches learn their song by imitating conspecifics. To stand out in the crowd, each male develops its own unique song. Because of this individual-specific song, it was long assumed that ...
Work on Australian Zebra Finch may unlock secrets of human language. April 2, 2010— -- The secret to understanding how humans learned to speak may come from an unlikely place -- the love songs of ...
The first songbird to have its genome deciphered may offer new insight into how human children learn to speak. A GLOBAL TEAM OF scientists has sequenced the genome of Australia’s native zebra finch, ...
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