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

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

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

Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

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

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

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

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 ...

New research reveals that parrots produce speech using brain structures remarkably similar to those in humans.