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George Ordiway1, Sarah M N Woolley2,3
1Zuckerman Institute for Mind, Brain, and Behavior, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. go2333@columbia.edu.
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Birds have contributed to important hearing-science discoveries. Examples include cochlear development, hair cell regeneration and brainstem circuit organization in chickens, sound localization in owls, vocal learning in songbirds, and cognition in parrots and corvids. Recent findings demonstrate the power and relevance of the avian cortex in studying auditory function.
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