Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy ... (lighter blue), which collects and distributes sensory information, and the cerebrum, responsible for higher ...

"The songbird song system is really the closest animal model ... the second was aimed at determining whether the birds' sensory systems reflected this shift in perception. "Some researchers ...

Birds first memorize a tutor song and form an auditory memory, or "template," in their brain (sensory phase). They then translate the inner template into motor activity by practicing, comparing ...