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Hearing skills of barn owls could map way to find problems in humans

07-31-2007 · EurekAlert!

The hearing precision that lets common barn owls find prey is helping researchers fine tune their quest to diagnose a variety of problems rooted in the human brain, not only with hearing but also with behavior and potentially damaged areas.

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