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Interviewer(s)
Art Woods, Marty Martin
Interviewee(s)
Erich Jarvis
Description
How did vocal learning evolve? What is special about human language? What brain structures are associated with speech and the many components of spoken language?
On this episode, we talk with Erich Jarvis (@erichjarvis), a professor at Rockefeller University, about the neurobiology of vocal communication. Erich’s ideas draw on the amazing breadth of auditory and vocal capacities among mammals and birds--from learning simple sounds to imitating sounds to producing complex, flexible vocalizations. We also discuss the unique “circuit within a circuit” neural networks of parrots that allow them to create such a rich repertoire of sounds. At the end, we talk about human speech and about what sign language, singing, and our “inner voice” tells us about its evolution.
Date Published
2-2021
Language
eng
Length of Episode
60 minutes, 44 seconds
Digital File Format
audio/mp3
Document Type
Podcast
Recommended Citation
Woods, Art and Martin, Marty, "Episode 058: Finding our voice: the neurobiology of vocal learning" (2021). BigBiology Podcasts. 59.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/bigbiology_podcasts/59