Songbird Memory: A Little Slow On The Uptake?
Friday, June 26, 2009 - 17:28
in Biology & Nature
Talk about your bird brains: A zebra finch's brain changes dramatically after hearing a new song, and even 24 hours later, the bird's still processing the information. When the finches were exposed to new tunes from a member of its own species, the experience switches on and off thousands of genes, offering researchers a new insight into songbird memory. The study will be published in this month's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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