The nervous system is about 550 million years old ... Llinás: Imagine I have a little bird on my hand. I can see the bird. I can see its color. I can see its shape. I can hear it sing.

This is where the extreme precision the bird's nervous system comes in useful. Tumer and Brainard used it to induce adaptation in specific elements of a motor program 2. The bengalese finch ...

The CDC reports that a Louisiana man severely ill from bird flu he contracted from a backyard flock, is infected with a virus ...

Until recently it was generally assumed that these variations were meaningless 'noise' that birds' nervous systems were ... The researchers used a computerized system to continuously monitor ...