As in human speech acquisition, songbird vocal learning depends on early auditory experience. During development, juvenile songbirds listen to and form auditory memories of adult tutor songs, which ...

Music training is good for the brain. Nina Kraus, a prominent brain researcher at Northwestern University, says that "music training leads to changes throughout the auditory system that prime ...

Although the primary sensory cortices have traditionally been viewed as 'stimulus analysers', there is increasing evidence that they can undergo learning-associated plasticity. In the auditory cortex, ...