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Bird Brains Explain How Humans Learn to Talk
eaglebtc writes "A team of neuroscientists at MIT have made tremendous progress in understanding how birds learn to sing: a part of the brain called the basal ganglia is primarily responsible for controlling the learning of movement and the production of speech. This circuitry is also present in humans, and it is the same way that a baby's random babbling eventually becomes the proficient speech of adults. It is hoped that this research can provide further insights into Parkinson's Disease, an inherited genetic condition that causes rapid breakdown of motor control and speech production. The full research study is available as a downloadable PDF."
Their basal ganglia are starting to depolarize!
actually i believe it should since the patterns that the basal ganglia uses to learn how to connect things would be affected by the constant listening to car alarms while young making them a part of the bird "vocabulary." which means that car alarms are bird slang, what for i have no idea.
Based on my observation, I can only conclude it's bird slang for shit. More specifically "shit here".
hey now! I'm insultified by the misrepresentationisms you been copulatin all up an' around my speechial deliverisations! And yes I can most certaintifically clothify my undeniable self in the mourning!!
To summarize the parent: Words mean things. ps. Good luck on that philosophy degree. Looks like you're most of the way there.
It was there for the plucking!
*ducks*
Be relentless!