Songbirds may hold the key to how babies learn to speak

The explanation for how people learn complex behaviors, such as speech, might be found in a new study of songbirds by scientists at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. “One hypothesis to explain speech development is that the sound of each word creates a memory or template in the brain,” said Sarah […]

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