The research, published March 19 in the journal Nature, suggests parrots (and specifically parakeets) could be a model for studying human speech, helping scientists to better understand and treat ...

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

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

He compares this neural organization to a keyboard that can produce a range of sounds — consonants, vowels, high pitches and low pitches. A budgie “is able to generate arbitrary sounds in its ...

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