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Why birds need to hear themselves sing—and what it teaches us about human language
The research team analyzed songs from six adult male Bengalese finches, each capable of singing sequences of 7 to 15 distinct syllables. They developed a sophisticated mathematical approach called ...
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Vocal changes in birds may predict age-related disorders in people, study finds
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 ...
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Singing in the brain: song learning in adult zebra finches
Recently in Nature(399, 466– 470, 1999), Anthony Leonardo and Mark Konishi of Caltech reported that zebra finches retain a surprising ability to modify their songs in response to auditory ...
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Songbird genome provides clues about speech
this difference in sex chromosome regulation might be related to the zebra finch's singing behavior. Further analysis of the zebra finch's genome showed that singing significantly altered the ...