Songbirds, Motor Learning, and a Tribute to a Great Scientist

I had planned to write a post about songbirds at some point in the future—how they’re used as a model for studying motor coordination, speech learning, and all kinds of cool stuff. But with recent news of the untimely passing of Allison Doupe, a longtime neuroscience faculty member at UCSF (where I got my PhD) and a pioneer in the songbird field, I think now … Continue reading