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Johns Hopkins University

Owl Cocked Head

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The researchers chose owls to study because they not only have sharp vision and hearing, but also have a midbrain organized in a way that makes it relatively easy to track the activity of specific neurons.

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Nagaraj Mahajan/Johns Hopkins University

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