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Scientists have been studying about Bengalese finches. They’ve been studying the use of their sets of syllables and communication. Scientists are one step closer into figuring out how humans develop their vocabulary. They have researched and developed a model of neurons in the bird’s vocal center. Both human and finches adapt themselves to syllables for the use of communication. The way finches and humans handle syllables are so exact, that scientists can figure out how the brain works and how us humans develop our terminology. The only difference is that finches can only create a few dozen syllables, whiles humans generate thousands of syllables.

One day scientists will be able to discover how individual neurons control syllables in humans.

Here is a video of a singing finch.

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