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Researchers from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and the University of California, San Francisco have developed a new algorithm capable of identifying features of male zebra finch songs that may underlie the distinction between a short phrase sung during courtship, and the same phrase sung in a non-courtship context.

Classified as: Research News, Sarah Woolley, Department of Biology, birdsong, Zebra finches
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Published on: 22 Apr 2021

Do songbirds and humans have common biological hardwiring that shapes how they produce and perceive sounds?

Scientists who study birdsong have been intrigued for some time by the possibility that human speech and music may be rooted in biological processes shared across a variety of animals. Now, research by Ï㽶ÊÓƵ biologists provides new evidence to support this idea.

Classified as: songbirds, birdsong, speech, sounds, finches, Universal, grammar, learning, jon sakata, Logan James, Biology, neurobiological, society and culture
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Published on: 22 Nov 2017
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