Birds Singing In Slow Motion Help Reveal Brain Locations Responsible For Timing
Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 19:28
in Psychology & Sociology
As anyone who watched the Olympics can appreciate, timing matters when it comes to complex sequential actions. It can make a difference between a perfect handspring and a fall, for instance. But what controls that timing? Scientists are closing in on the brain regions responsible, thanks to some technical advances and some help from songbirds.