Songbirds reveal how practice improves performance

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 09:00 in Biology & Nature

Learning complex skills like playing an instrument requires a sequence of movements that can take years to master. Last year, MIT neuroscientists reported that by studying the chirps of tiny songbirds, they were able to identify how two distinct brain circuits contribute to this type of trial-and-error learning in different stages of life...

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