Proof! Human Language Gene Helps Mice Learn Tasks

This article relates to the Words That Change the World podcast y'all listened to.

"This really is an important brick in the wall saying that the form of the gene that allowed us to speak may have something to do with a special kind of learning, which takes us from having to make conscious associations in order to act to a nearly automatic-pilot way of acting based on the cues around us," says MIT's Ann Graybiel, one of the professors conducting the research.