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

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 ...

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 ...

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

"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 ...