In his home office in Durham, Duke neuroscientist Richard Mooney shows a series of images of a bird's brain on song. In one, ...

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

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

Zebra finches learn their courtship songs early in life by first listening to their fathers and memorizing the melodies.

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

Whereas zebra finches produce rigid ... neurons recycle similar activity patterns for sounds with shared acoustic properties, enabling greater flexibility and diversity in vocal output (Fig.

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

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

Each year, the second grade students of Kristin Marquis at Crescent City Grade School receive an assignment to research an ...

Elsa Hosk's latest photo dump flaunted her enviable coat collection, which included a classic old money trench and the next ...