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

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

The ability of parrots to mimic human speech has long fascinated people, but a new study reveals that their gift of gab goes ...

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

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 ...

"Incredibly flexible" spoken language is produced through delicate patterns in the human brain, the researchers say. To determine whether the patterns are unique to humans, the research team performed ...

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

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

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

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 ...