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

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

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.

Human speech arises courtesy of some significant neural horsepower. Different areas of the brain are involved in determining the meaning that's desired, finding the words to express it ...