Sentences with phrase «vocal learning center»

Now, they have found that brain areas around these vocal learning centers become active when the birds flap their wings or hop around.

(Movement elicited the same response in these areas in the other birds; they just did not have the vocal learning centers.)

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In addition to having defined centers in the brain that control vocal learning called «cores,» parrots have what the scientists call «shells,» or outer rings, which are also involved in vocal learning.

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.