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A new study on songbirds sheds light on the power of social interaction to facilitate learning, insights that potentially apply to human development.

9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ researchers discovered that zebra finches deprived of early social experiences could still form strong bonds with a partner later in life. Once placed into cohabitation with a male, females that had never heard a mating song before could quickly develop a preference for his melody.

, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, challenge the belief that early experiences alone are critical for learning song preference.

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