Finding our voice: The neurobiology of vocal learning (Ep 58)

<p><strong>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?<br> <br> On this episode, we talk with </strong><a href="https://jarvislab.net/"><u><strong>Erich Jarvis</strong></u></a><strong> (</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/erichjarvis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor"><u><strong>@erichjarvis</strong></u></a><strong>), 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.</strong></p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bigbiology/message