Left turn in speech research—Key insights in study of zebra finches
Friday, August 24, 2012 - 08:31
in Biology & Nature
Baby songbirds learn to sing by imitation, just as human babies do. So researchers at Harvard and Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, have been studying the brains of zebra finches—red-beaked, white-breasted songbirds—for clues to how young birds and human infants learn vocalization on a neuronal level.