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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Songbirds Offer Clues to How We Learn Language</P>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">When we hear a song for the first time, it often seems like it goes in one ear and out the other, sometimes only few catchy words from a chorus leaving much of an impression.</P>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">But when the Australian zebra finch hears its father sing for the first time, those simple melodies activate large, complex gene networks in the bird's brain, according to new research by an international team of scientists that includes researchers from <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Washington</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Illinois</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> at Urbana-Champaign.</P>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Full story:</P>

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