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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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