A Bird’s Brain Holds Clues to the Sounds of Music

A Bird’s Brain Holds Clues to the Sounds of Music: The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an animal that can make new calls. Why some birds learn to create their own repertoire of songs and others can’t has been a longtime focus of the neurobiologist Erich Jarvis’s research at Rockefeller University