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

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 ...

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