News tagged with vocal learning
Bird brains follow the beat: Capacity to move in time with music may be connected with ability to learn speech
Even though typical dance-floor activity might suggest otherwise, humans generally demonstrate a remarkable capacity to synchronize their body movements in response to auditory stimuli. But is this ability ...
Feb 24, 2012 |
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'Singing' mice -- the ongoing debate of nature vs. nurture
What happened to being "quiet as a mouse"? Researchers have recently shown that, rather than being the silent creatures of popular belief, mice emit ultrasonic calls in a variety of social contexts, and these ...
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Tweet: Scientists decode songbird's genome, provide clues on language learning (w/ Video)
Nearly all animals make sounds instinctively, but baby songbirds learn to sing in virtually the same way human infants learn to speak: by imitating a parent.
Mar 31, 2010 |
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Researchers unlock the 'sound of learning' by linking sensory and motor systems
Learning to talk also changes the way speech sounds are heard, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated resear ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Transgenic songbirds provide new tool to understand the brain
A new genetic tool will enable scientists to study vocal learning and neurogenesis at the molecular level in songbirds.
Sep 29, 2009 |
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