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Duetting songbirds ‘silence’ their partner’s brain to coordinate the duets – News-Medical.net
Art Garfunkel once described his legendary musical chemistry with Paul Simon, “We meet somewhere in the air through the vocal cords … .”
Art Garfunkel once described his legendary musical chemistry with Paul Simon, “We meet somewhere in the air through the vocal cords … .” But a new study of duetting songbirds from Ecuador, the plain-tail wren (Pheugopedius euophrys), has offered another tune explaining the mysterious connection between successful performing duos.
It’s a link of their minds, and it happens, in fact, as each singer mutes the brain of the other as they coordinate their duets.
In a study published May 31 in Proceedings…
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