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Dopamine key to vocal learning, songbird study finds

March 15, 2016 by

New research found that a reduction in dopamine levels in a small region of the basal ganglia in the finches' brains caused a reduction in their ability to correct vocal errors, while having no detectable effect on their ability to sing.

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