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

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 sim…

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