Songbird's strategy for changing its tune could inform rehab efforts
Monday, January 31, 2011 - 14:20
in Health & Medicine
It takes songbirds and baseball pitchers thousands of repetitions a choreography of many muscle movements -- to develop an irresistible trill or a killer slider. Now, scientists have discovered that the male Bengalese finch uses a simple mental computation and an uncanny memory to create its near-perfect mate-catching melody -- a finding that could have implications for rehabilitating people with neuromuscular diseases and injuries.