Baby birds babble like human infants

[ashley059]

A discovery that sheds new light on why younger people are more creative. This adds to evidence that young animals are born with circuitry to make them explore the possibilities of their vocal apparatus and to make sense of the world.

Baby birds babble like human infants - Telegraph

[Martinscholes]

"Dr Fee's colleagues, Dmitriy Aronov and co-author Aaron Andalman, used a drug to temporarily disable parts of the brain. They recorded signals from neurons in the singing bird, and were surprised to find that a hitherto overlooked part of the brain was important.

When they disabled part of the learning circuit, called LMAN, the birds ceased babbling."

All of a sudden, I don't care about their research, any more...