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

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 ...

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

"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 ...

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 ...

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