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

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 ...

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 ...

The research, published March 19 in the journal Nature, suggests parrots (and specifically parakeets) could be a model for ...

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

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 ...

New research reveals that parrots produce speech using brain structures remarkably similar to those in humans.

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

Different groups of AAC cells were found to produce sounds akin to consonants and ... performed the first brain recordings in AAC of the budgerigar, a type of small parrot that can mimic hundreds ...