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Nature 432, 682-683 (9 December 2004) | doi:10.1038/432682a; Published online 8 December 2004
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Behavioural biology: Name that tune
Daniel Margoliash1
Abstract
Understanding how early auditory memories are laid down could help to explain their role in vocal development. Some ingenious experiments in birds provide fresh ideas about how such memories are represented.
A central discovery that emerged from the early studies of Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen was that animals have innate predispositions that guide the learning of species-appropriate signals. Birdsongs are a good example of such signals.
- Daniel Margoliash is in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, 1027 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
e-mail: Email: dan@bigbird.uchicago.edu
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