Many everyday skills, such as speech, are not innate. They are learned through trial and error. Now, by analyzing young ...

Learn how Zebra finches' natural drive to learn their songs makes them masters of their craft — and what we can learn from ...

The Winona Arts Center is excited to bring this opportunity to integrate conscious breathwork, restorative movements, and the ...

Qi was able to show that another chemical messenger called acetylcholine can trigger dopamine release in the bird’s brain ...

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region that controls vocalization. It showed that the two relied on different ...

The research, published March 19 in the journal Nature, suggests parrots (and specifically parakeets) could be a model for ...

A new study provides the first detailed map of how sensory and motor circuits interact in the zebra finch brain, offering insights into how songbirds learn and refine their songs.

Neuroscientists have found a link between vocal changes and the aging brain in zebra finch songbirds, which could help lead to earlier diagnoses for disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's ...

LA MIRADA — Jennie Finch is proud of the “new normal” at La Mirada High School. “These girls won’t know any different and that’s what we’ve worked for,” Finch said, “and the ...

While the judges are interested, they initially seem a bit underwhelmed. “My favorite times when you were singing were the times when it was simpler,” Carrie Underwood admits. It’s Luke ...

Zebra finches, native to Australia, have a strikingly similar-looking brain to humans ... For their latest paper, Miller and her colleagues recorded the songs of 36 birds, ranging widely in age, and ...