Sophisticated birdsong follows strict grammatical rules, much like human sentences. But what happens when birds can’t hear themselves sing? A new international study of Bengalese finches suggests the answer could reshape our understanding of how all brains,

Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new modeling method by researchers at Penn State trains on recordings of birds to create accurate birdsongs.

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local Indigenous Carib tribe near the isolated village of Maypures,” located deep in the Venezuelan jungle.

A groundbreaking study from Penn State unveils how birds structure their songs similarly to human language, using an AI-driven model to decode the hidden rules of birdsong and its neural basis—potentially unlocking new insights into human speech.