songbirds learn to vocalize very much like human infants learn to speak. In both cases, young individuals form auditory memories of the vocalizations of adults during a sensitive period ...

Neither human speech nor song develops ... an adult function for the anterior forebrain pathway similar to the role proposed in juveniles: auditory feedback-based evaluation and adaptive ...

The brain's sound processing areas are split into two distinct regions — one which determines what a sound is, the other which tracks where it's coming from ...

Given the connections between frontal and temporal regions, these anatomical pathways may serve to integrate ... or overdeveloped connections between auditory and motor regions in the brain.

When participants listened to the Vocals & Others Version, brain activity increased in regions associated with cognitive ...