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

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

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

Parakeet brains and their ability to mimic human talking could help people suffering from speech disorders, according to a ...

Published online March 19 in the journal Nature, the study mapped the activity of a group of nerve cells in the bird's brain called the central nucleus of the anterior arcopallium (AAC), which is ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

These birds have neurons that are activated when they produce specific vocalizations, similar to how neurons are activated in humans, though in a different region ...