The science of complexity aims to answer the question of what rules nature chooses when
assembling the basic constituents of matter and energy into structures and dynamical …

Transcription is a molecular requisite for long-term synaptic plasticity and long-term memory
formation. Thus, in the last several years, one main interest of molecular neuroscience has …

Presumably, due to a rapid early diversification, major parts of the higher-level phylogeny of
birds are still resolved controversially in different analyses or are considered unresolvable …

Vocal learners such as humans and songbirds can learn to produce elaborate patterns of
structurally organized vocalizations, whereas many other vertebrates such as non-human …

We believe that names have a powerful influence on the experiments we do and the way in
which we think. For this reason, and in the light of new evidence about the function and …

Populations of neurons display an extraordinary diversity in the behaviors they affect and
display. Machine learning techniques have recently emerged that allow us to create …

The standard nomenclature that has been used for many telencephalic and related
brainstem structures in birds is based on flawed assumptions of homology to mammals. In …

The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together
some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our …

Vocal learning, the substrate for human language, is a rare trait found to date in only three
distantly related groups of mammals (humans, bats, and cetaceans) and three distantly …

Comparative psychologists interested in the evolution of intelligence have focused their
attention on social primates, whereas birds tend to be used as models of associative …