Neuroscience
Great piece on Fresh Air the other day on bird sounds. Includes info. on bioacoustics and how birds learn their songs.
On March 29, Terri Gross interviewed Donald Kroodsma, specialist in the interpretation of bird songs. His new book, The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong, describes how birds communicate and why. She also talked to Don Stap, an ornithologist. His new book Birdsong, details the work and passions of people who analyze the sounds of birds. Stap followed Kroodsma from the lab into the field to write his account of the researcher at work.
- All About Music And The Brain
Today's Science Weekly Podcast from The Guardian is a fascinating special on music and the brain. Music is found in every human culture and one theory is that it was an evolutionary precursor to language. Whereas language allows us to make propositional,...
- Malnutrition And The Brain
From the December issue of The APA Monitor:Feed the birds Songbird study offers new insights into how malnutrition impairs development and cognition By Rachel Adelson The APA Monitor December 2005 Print version: page 16 Slim postpartum pickings for...
- Bird Brains!
From tomorrow's New York Times: Minds of Their Own: Birds Gain Respect By SANDRA BLAKESLEE The New York Times Published: February 1, 2005 Birdbrain has long been a colloquial term of ridicule. The common notion is that birds' brains...
- Blue Jay's Theory Of Mind?
Fascinating article in the New Scientist about potential theory of mind in members of the crow family. Theory of mind (wikipedia), as you know, is the ability of one being to estimate what another being might be thinking or how he might respond to a given...
- Even More New Books!
Arranged by subject, then alphabetically by title ... Animal Behavior The metaphysics of apes : negotiating the animal-human boundary; by Raymond Corbey. publisher: Cambridge, 2005. for more info. Nature's music: the science of birdsong; by ed....
Neuroscience
Speech/music development in birds
Great piece on Fresh Air the other day on bird sounds. Includes info. on bioacoustics and how birds learn their songs.
On March 29, Terri Gross interviewed Donald Kroodsma, specialist in the interpretation of bird songs. His new book, The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong, describes how birds communicate and why. She also talked to Don Stap, an ornithologist. His new book Birdsong, details the work and passions of people who analyze the sounds of birds. Stap followed Kroodsma from the lab into the field to write his account of the researcher at work.
- All About Music And The Brain
Today's Science Weekly Podcast from The Guardian is a fascinating special on music and the brain. Music is found in every human culture and one theory is that it was an evolutionary precursor to language. Whereas language allows us to make propositional,...
- Malnutrition And The Brain
From the December issue of The APA Monitor:Feed the birds Songbird study offers new insights into how malnutrition impairs development and cognition By Rachel Adelson The APA Monitor December 2005 Print version: page 16 Slim postpartum pickings for...
- Bird Brains!
From tomorrow's New York Times: Minds of Their Own: Birds Gain Respect By SANDRA BLAKESLEE The New York Times Published: February 1, 2005 Birdbrain has long been a colloquial term of ridicule. The common notion is that birds' brains...
- Blue Jay's Theory Of Mind?
Fascinating article in the New Scientist about potential theory of mind in members of the crow family. Theory of mind (wikipedia), as you know, is the ability of one being to estimate what another being might be thinking or how he might respond to a given...
- Even More New Books!
Arranged by subject, then alphabetically by title ... Animal Behavior The metaphysics of apes : negotiating the animal-human boundary; by Raymond Corbey. publisher: Cambridge, 2005. for more info. Nature's music: the science of birdsong; by ed....