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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."
...is the same way that a baby's random babbling eventually becomes the proficient speech of adults.
Obviously these scientists will need to study George W. Bush's basal ganglia, or lack thereof.
So, when did Dubya volunteer as a test-subject in this project? Release the papers! We want to see the President's true medical record and DNA structure.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Insert joke about bird brain/baby babbling/level of intellegence of average adult or slashdot user here.