The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

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A symphony of synapses fires every time a songbird sings. For Erich Jarvis, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, the neural pathways he finds particularly interesting inside a bird’s brain are ...

Neuroscientists have found a link between vocal changes and the aging brain in zebra finch songbirds, which could help lead to earlier diagnoses for disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's ...

It's difficult to know what birds 'think' when they fly, but scientists in are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds' heads. Evolutionary biologists and neuroscience researchers ...

Orange-crowned Warbler sitting on a branch, singing. Some of these songbirds will collect in "song neighborhoods" made of two to six males who mimic the songs of each other.© Dee Carpenter ...