Sentences with phrase «song area in the brain»

«This connection between an innate call and the activity of a brain area important to learned vocalisations suggests that during the evolution of songbirds, the role of the song area in the brain changed from being a simple vocalisation system for innate calls to a specialised neural network for learned songs,» concludes Manfred Gahr, coordinator of the study.

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Neuroscientists mapped out the brain area responsible for the adult song, which controls muscles in the zebra finch mouth.

When the researchers analysed the activity in an area of the brain that is important for the production of song — an area known as nucleus RA — they found a clear correlation between its activity pattern and the occurrence of the «stack» call.

Neurons in the shell surrounding the established vocal centers of the parrot brain play a part in vocal learning and other complex motor behaviors, resolving controversies over the size of brain areas involved in song and speech imitation.

This relationship between unlearned calls and an area of the brain responsible for learned vocalisations is important for understanding the evolution of song learning in songbirds.

After researchers discovered in 2004 that FOXP2 is expressed in the same areas of the brain in humans and zebra finches, a song - learning bird, neurobiologist Constance Scharff of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin began to investigate whether such birds could help scientists understand how humans learn language.

In a new finding with implications to human learning, memory, and speech acquisition, researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have correlated the simple notes and more complex passages of a bird's song to activity in different areas of the braiIn a new finding with implications to human learning, memory, and speech acquisition, researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have correlated the simple notes and more complex passages of a bird's song to activity in different areas of the braiin different areas of the brain.