In a finding that once again displays the power of the female, UCSF neuroscientists have discovered that teenage male songbirds, still working to perfect their song, improve their performance in the presence of a female bird.
The finding sheds li…
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 …
A team of scientists has observed the activity of nerve cells in a songbird’s brain as it is singing a particular song. Dezhe Jin, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Penn State University and one of the study’s authors, expla…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — As anyone who as ever picked up a guitar or a tennis racket knows, precise timing is often an essential part of performing complex tasks. Now, by studying the brain circuits that control bird song, MIT researchers have identified…