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Cooling a specific cluster of neurons in songbirds' brains slows song tempo without changing other acoustic features. This clever technique could be used for understanding neural control of other complex behaviours.

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Figure 1: Effects of cooling on song.
Figure 2: Song circuitry.

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  1. Chris M. Glaze is in the Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 312 Leidy Laboratories, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. cglaze@sas.upenn.edu,

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  2. Todd Troyer is in the Department of Biology, University of Texas San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas 78249, USA. todd.troyer@utsa.edu,

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Glaze, C., Troyer, T. Cool songs. Nature 456, 187–188 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456187a

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