Behavioral learning. The illuminated songbird.
Recent studies of the neural mechanisms of avian song learning suggest that pathways for adult song production are distinct from those essential to juvenile song development.
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Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
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