Talking Cartoon Birds May Be More Realistic Than We Thought
Sunday, June 26, 2011 - 10:40
in Biology & Nature
Songbirds have been used in the past to examine the precursor functions to human language in our neural circuitry, but they may be capable of much more than being animal models. A new study shows the Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica) can learn the rules of an artificial grammar system - hierarchical language structure has been previously thought to be specific only to humans.read more