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

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.

研究人员开展鹦鹉发声功能组织研究，揭示其大脑中与人类语言控制相似的功能表征，为语言运动控制研究提供重要模型。

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 ...