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

These techniques allow us to examine the anatomy and physiology of the speech mechanism. Our lab is housed within the Division of Communication Disorders in the College of Health Sciences.

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

Further multidisciplinary research is needed to study the molecular, neural and cognitive mechanisms of birdsong, and its similarities with human speech. Such analyses may ultimately have ...

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

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

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