A hit of dopamine tells baby birds when their song practice is paying off
In his home office in Durham, Duke neuroscientist Richard Mooney shows a series of images of a bird's brain on song. In one, ...
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Playing songs to Darwin's finches helps confirm link between environmental change and emergence of new species
The innovative key to this discovery? The ghosts of future finches. The new study shows that beak-driven changes to songs themselves can impact species recognition, and thus drive the separation ...
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Zebra Finch Song (AUDIO)
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Dopamine’s Role in Self-Driven Song Learning Revealed in Zebra Finches
A study by Duke University neuroscientists uncovers the role of dopamine in guiding song learning in juvenile zebra finches.