http://www.futurity.org/top-stories/to-learn-songs-bird-brains-catch-tiny-errors/ Research news from leading universities Sat, 25 May 2013 03:14:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.futurity.org/top-stories/to-learn-songs-bird-brains-catch-tiny-errors/comment-page-1/#comment-533492 Baron Pike Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:54:28 +0000 http://www.futurity.org/?p=251612#comment-533492 Mathematical models won't tell you that for birds, the songs are their language, so they have more incentive to get things right than we do - even though in our distant past, the songs we feel the most emotion for were also the language that signaled these emotional message to others of our human species. Before we developed our more rational brain systems to handle our evolving and more abstract linguistic abilities. Mathematical models won’t tell you that for birds, the songs are their language, so they have more incentive to get things right than we do – even though in our distant past, the songs we feel the most emotion for were also the language that signaled these emotional message to others of our human species. Before we developed our more rational brain systems to handle our evolving and more abstract linguistic abilities.

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