Animals
What Birds Really Listen for in Birdsong (It’s Not What You Think)
Birds seem to pay more attention to fine acoustic details that humans cannot hear than to the melodies that captivate us
Adam Fishbein is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego. He studies the cognitive and neural bases of animal social interactions. Credit: Nick Higgins
Birds seem to pay more attention to fine acoustic details that humans cannot hear than to the melodies that captivate us
The brain areas that control vocal learning in birds are strikingly similar to language regions in the human brain
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