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

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.

“What the parrot has presented is this beautiful, elegant solution for making vocal sounds.” Human brains have similar vocal ...

Both of these birds use a specific region of the brain to control the muscles of the syrinx to produce a series of sounds. But they organize that process completely differently. The zebra finch ...

Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new details about how the brain organises learned vocalisations such as birdsong.