Birdsong and speech acquisition</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Birdsong and speech acquisition"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Birdsong,and,speech,acquisition"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">26-04-2006</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Birdsong and speech acquisition</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_xK0fUgaF5bjRv60YH9ZY_0.jpeg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Utrecht, Netherlands (Nature): Song learning in songbirds has strong similarities with speech acquisition in human infants. Songbirds need to learn their songs from an adult conspecific. This occurs in two phases: a memorization phase, early in life, during which the young bird forms a neural representation (a 'template') of the song of a tutor; and a sensorimotor phase, during which the bird's own vocal output is matched to the stored template. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://info.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/hXuo0Mc2fA0C40zTE0Es " target="blank">info.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/hXuo0Mc2fA0C40zTE0Es </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show