#complex human behavior

New Insights into How We Learn to Speak and Play Music

New insights into how we learn to speak and play music have emerged from a brain study that has uncovered the neural processes mice use to ignore their own footsteps, but are aware of other sounds around them.

The research is reported in the journal Nature.

“The ability to ignore one’s own footsteps requires the brain to store and recall memories and to make some pretty stellar…