Mike Beecher and Eliot Brenowitz were featured in a Seattle Times front page story.
The way birds learn their songs is similar to the way babies learn to talk and adults master a golf swing, UW brain researchers say. And studies of the seasonal changes in bird brains are revealing neurological twists that one day might be harnessed to heal human brains damaged by stroke, Alzheimer's disease and other disorders.
“The way birds learn their songs is similar to the way babies learn to talk and adults master a golf swing, UW brain researchers say. And studies of the seasonal changes in bird brains are revealing neurological twists that one day might be harnessed to heal human brains damaged by stroke, Alzheimer's disease and other disorders. But nothing in the human brain comes close to the transformation male birds undergo as they ride a roller coaster of hormones that peaks this time of year, said Brenowitz.
“Bird brains teach us a few things about our own brains.” http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018209672_birdbrains15m.html?cmpid=2628 . Includes a photo of Mike Beecher fastening a stuffed sparrow to a tree limb.