Performance Improvement and Bird Songs
Minor changes in repeated actions could be part of an unconscious effort to improve performance, said U.S. researchers who studied subtle variations in the pitch of a bird’s song.
Researchers Evren Turner and Michael Brainard of the University of California, San Francisco, suggest their findings, which appear online Wednesday in the British scientific journal Nature, shed new light into why everyone from high-performance athletes to musicians vary in even the most highly practised skills.
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Bird songs are some of the most intricately fascinating things I’ve ever studied. The same song survives generation to generation as a way to improve kin selection. But, if you separate a group — even just by placing them on either sides of a river — the song starts changing significantly until it’s unrecognizable. It’s all about the details.
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