Name: Birds prefer sound texture over sound order
Description: Prof Dooling and his research team study the acoustic elements of zebra finch songs and their implications for human speech and language.

How exactly do birds ‘talk’ to one another? And might research into how birds listen to birdsong help us understand communication both in humans and birds? Dr Robert Dooling and his team, based at the University of Maryland, USA, showed that – for zebra finches at least – the subtle nuances in sound texture or timbre are more important than […]