Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...

The parakeets commonly kept as pets could offer fresh clues about vocal learning and potential treatments for speech ...

Budgerigars are some of the chattiest birds, and that is reflected in their brains. Budgie brains contain a map of vocal sounds, which is similar to that found in the human brain and has not been ...

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region that controls vocalization. It showed that the two relied on different ...

These birds have neurons that are activated when they produce specific vocalizations, similar to how neurons are activated in ...

Brain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people.

A new study explains how a parakeet's brain helps it to mimic human words. By recording for the first time the brain activity ...