Baby birds learn to sing like we learn to talk


	Baby birds learn to sing like we learn to talk

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5-5-2008 3:39 PM

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5-5-2008 7:51 PM

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                                        How do baby birdies learn to sing? By babbling                </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/od_nm/babbling_dc"><P>
                        WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 
Baby birds babble much like human
infants do, and they have their own special brain circuits to
do it, researchers reported on Thursday.                        
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/od_nm/babbling_dc"><P>Their findings suggest that learning to sing -- and also to
speak -- is a process independent of adult singing or speech.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/od_nm/babbling_dc"><P>Perhaps other aspects of infant learning are equally
independent in the brain, Michale Fee of the <SPAN id="lw_1209743575_0" class="yshortcuts">Massachusetts
Institute of Technology</SPAN> and colleagues suggested.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/od_nm/babbling_dc"><P>"Young birds learn their songs in a series of stages. They
start out just as humans do, by babbling," Fee said in an audio
interview on the Web site of the journal Science, which
published the findings.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/od_nm/babbling_dc"><P>"The brain really learns how to use its body by making
spontaneous movements and seeing what happens," Fee added.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080502/od_nm/babbling_dc"><P>"Babbling in songbirds is just an example of play -- it's
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