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

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region ...

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

Budgie brains contain a map of vocal sounds, which is similar to that found in the human brain and has not been seen in any other bird. “We found that there was a representation of vocal sounds ...

1a). The budgerigar AAC, by contrast, exhibits a more adaptable coding strategy: neurons recycle similar activity patterns for sounds with shared acoustic properties, enabling greater flexibility ...

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

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