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Scientists Image Brain at Point When Vocal Learning Begins
In the first experiment of its kind, scientists employed high-resolution imaging to examine the brains of juvenile songbirds right after they heard an adult tutors' song for the first time. Specifically, they wanted to see what happened to the connections between nerve cells, or synapses, in a part of the brain where the motor commands for song are thought to originate.
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In the first experiment of its kind, scientists employed high-resolution imaging to examine the brains of juvenile songbirds right after they heard an adult tutors' song for the first time. Specifically, they wanted to see what happened to the connections between nerve cells, or synapses, in a part of the brain where the motor commands for song are thought to originate.
