Male zebra finches learn their song by imitating conspecifics. To stand out in the crowd, each male develops its own unique song. Because of this individual-specific song, it was long assumed that ...

Behaviour, Vol. 135, No. 5 (Jul., 1998), pp. 599-614 (16 pages) Social interaction with a song tutor is often found to be important for the song learning process in songbirds, but the mechanism is ...

Complex learning processes like speaking or singing follow similar patterns. Using the example of zebra finches, researchers have investigated how young birds imitate the courtship songs of their ...

BOSTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) --Neuroscientists at MIT have detailed the song-learning process by studying the brains of zebra finches, a small Australian songbird. In the first two weeks of life, young birds ...

A new study published in Science shows how a neural circuit in Zebra finches, involved in forming the learning of a courtship song, can be manipulated. Scientists effectively implanted a new song in ...

Female zebra finches that did not learn courtship songs from their fathers in their youth can learn the courtship melody as adults through the experience of living with a male, a new study has found.

A new study on songbirds sheds light on the power of social interaction to facilitate learning, insights that potentially apply to human development. The findings, published in Proceedings of the ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern used zebra finches to study how the birds — and young humans — imitate vocalizations to learn languages.";s: Birds and babies may seem like very different creatures, but ...

The ability to learn new motor skills is critical to almost all aspects of our lives. From the time a baby is born, it learns to move its arms and hands, to pronounce words and to walk. Such skills ...