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Song learning and sleep

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Song learning in juvenile birds is guided by daytime sensorimotor feedback, but nighttime sleep is also integral to song learning, reports a study in Nature, setting the stage for physiological insights into sleep-dependent learning mechanisms.

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Figure 1: Connection diagram of the song system.

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