Songbird's strategy for changing its tune could inform rehab efforts

It takes songbirds and baseball pitchers thousands of repetitions - a choreography of many muscle movements - to develop an irresistible trill or a killer slider. Now, scientists have discovered that the male Bengalese finch uses a simple mental computation and an uncanny memory to create its near-perfect mate-catching melody - a finding that could have implications for rehabilitating people with neuromuscular diseases and injuries...

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