Sentences with phrase «parallels human speech»

The neuro - process by which bird songs are formed parallels human speech development.

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During more than two decades at Rockefeller, Peter Marler, a leader in the field, examined the interplay between the inborn program for song in young birds and the influence of social factors, uncovering parallels to speech acquisition in human babies.

But Fisher, a member of the team that originally isolated FOXP2 in humans, says that he «would be cautious about concluding» that the new findings represent «a direct parallel with the kinds of speech problems observed in humans with FOXP2 disruption.»

We previously found parallel FoxP2 expression patterns in human and songbird cortico / pallio - striatal circuits important for learned vocalizations, suggesting that FoxP2's function in birdsong may generalize to speech.