Who knew canaries were taught songs? And who knew there were mechanical devices called serinettes that, when cranked by hand, taught new melodies to London Fancys, Yorkshire Spangles, Norwich Yellows, ...
The work appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Ramping up activity Using traditional imaging methods, scientists had previously observed the HVC—a key brain region for ...
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A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence tackles this by focusing on female canaries, which do not normally sing, but nevertheless contain the full neural machinery for ...