Learning by imitation is essential for transmitting many aspects of human culture, including
speech, language, art, and music. How the human brain enables imitation remains a …

A common trend in neuroscience is convergence on selected model systems. Underlying
this approach is an often implicit assumption that mechanisms observed in one species are …

Migratory birds can use a magnetic compass for orientation during their migratory journeys
covering thousands of kilometers. But how do they sense the reference direction provided by …

As in human speech acquisition, songbird vocal learning depends on early auditory
experience. During development, juvenile songbirds listen to and form auditory memories of …

Determining how information flows along anatomical brain pathways is a fundamental
requirement for understanding how animals perceive their environments, learn, and behave …

Songbirds learn to sing by memorizing a tutor song that they then vocally mimic using
auditory feedback. This developmental sequence suggests that brain areas that encode …

Songbirds use a complex network of discrete brain areas and connecting fiber tracts to sing
their song, but our knowledge of this circuitry may be incomplete. The forebrain area,“caudal …

In his pioneering research on the neural mechanisms of filial imprinting, Gabriel Horn has
gone a long way to fulfilling Karl Lashley's dream of finding the 'engram'or memory trace in …

Our knowledge about the computational mechanisms underlying human learning and
recognition of sound sequences, especially speech, is still very limited. One difficulty in …

Behavioral responses to sociosexual signals often depend on gonadal steroid hormones,
which are thought to modulate behavior by acting on motivational systems in the brain …