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 ...

Fender’s $35 Riffstation desktop app, which helps you break down songs to learn its chords and riffs at your own pace, is now available for free on macOS and Windows. Fire it up, open an MP3 or CD ...

The Laugh & Learn™ Smart Stages™ Puppy is a plush, musical learning toy that helps babies and toddlers explore the alphabet, ...

Let's be real for a second. Our attention spans aren't what they used to be. With the constant bombardment of content from all sides competing for our glances, our ears, and our fingers, it's no ...

In a paper appearing in the September 2012 issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, researchers at Duke and Harvard universities observed the imitative vocal learning habits of male zebra finches to ...

Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds – one of the natural world’s greatest symphonies – is a joy like no other. It is not surprising that bird-watching has become an increasingly popular hobby. A ...

Learning to recognize every bird song is a daunting task. I still don’t recognize every song or call note I hear. As a beginning birdwatcher I was slow to learn the songs. It was easier to let more ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Humpback and bowhead whales are the only mammals other than humans thought to progressively change the songs they sing through a process of cultural learning. But maybe the humpbacks ...

To learn a song, young white-crowned sparrows don’t need to hear the entire tune straight through. Hearing it in two-phrase bits will do. If the order of phrases in a pair is reversed—BA and DC ...