Singers (and parents) take note: Worst songbird rehearsals precede best debuts
...arning to imitate songs accurately, much as babies babble before grasping words. Therefore, the new research points to the need for a quantitative study of the effects of sleep on learning in human infants, says Partha Mitra, a theoretical neuroscientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who participated in ...... the brain's auditory processing centers to sort a babble of different sounds, like cocktail party chatter, into identifiable individual voices has long been a mystery. Now, researchers analyzing how both humans and monkeys perceive sequences of tones have created a model that can predict the central featur...