Songbirds have a thing for patterns
Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 15:30
in Psychology & Sociology
You might think that young children would first learn to recognize sounds and then learn how those categories of sounds fit together into words. But that isn't how it works. Rather, kids learn sounds and words at the same time. Now, researchers present evidence from European starlings showing that songbirds learn their songs in much the same way.