What podcasts say about Erich Jarvis
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What Erich Jarvis has said on podcasts
35 statements · 13 positive · 6 negative · 2 mixed · 14 neutral
Evidence does not support a separate language module in the brain.
“I don't think there is any good evidence for a separate language module.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 1:03
Speech-production pathways contain complex algorithms for spoken language.
“there is a speech production pathway that's controlling our larynx, controlling our jaw muscles, that has built within it all the complex algorithms for spoken language.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 1:09
Speech-production pathways are specialized in humans, parrots, and songbirds.
“This speech production pathway is specialized to humans and parrots and songbirds”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 1:30
Dogs can understand several hundred human speech words.
“Dogs can understand several hundred human speech words”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 1:49
Humans are the most advanced species for spoken language.
“Humans are the most advanced at spoken language”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 2:28
Speech-production and gestural brain pathways have an evolutionary relationship.
“I would agree, based upon what we've seen, is that there is an evolutionary relationship between the brain pathways that control speech production and gesturing.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 3:00
Only a few species can learn vocal communication by imitating sounds.
“only a few species have learned vocal communication, the ability to imitate sounds.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 6:51
Humans, parrots, and some species use forebrain circuits to control learned vocalizations.
“in humans and in parrots and some other species, somehow we acquired circuits where the forebrain has taken over the brainstem.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 7:44
Humans are the only primates with advanced vocal-learning ability.
“We are the only ones that have this advanced vocal learning ability.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 8:09
Neanderthals likely had spoken language.
“I think Neanderthals had spoken language.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 9:18
Advanced vocal language has existed for at least 500,000 years.
“But I think it's been there for at least between 500,000 to a million years.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 9:24
Missing childhood language exposure makes adult language learning difficult.
“these critical periods that if you remove a child, this unfortunately happens where a child is feral and is not raised with human and goes through their puberty phase of growth. It becomes hard for them to learn a language as an adult.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 11:02
Deafness causes human speech to deteriorate without therapy.
“if they become deaf, we humans become deaf, our speech starts to deteriorate without any therapy.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 11:29
Vocal-learning species possess brain pathways absent in species unable to imitate sounds.
“These brain pathways were not found in the species who couldn't imitate.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 12:06
Humans, songbirds, and parrots share similar specialized gene expression in vocal-learning regions.
“the underlying genes that are expressed in these brain regions in a specialized way different from the rest of the brain, are also similar between humans and songbirds and parrots, all the way down to the genes.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 12:33
FOXP2-related mutations produce similar speech deficits in humans and vocal-learning birds.
“mutations in these genes that cause speech deficits in humans, like in FOXP2, if you put those same mutations or similar type of deficits in these vocal learning birds, you get similar deficits.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 13:03
Genetics influences vocal communication in addition to cultural learning.
“There is something genetically influencing our vocal communication on top of what we learn culturally.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 15:37
Cross-species upbringing can produce hybrid bird songs.
“it would sing a song that was like a hybrid in between.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 16:07
Turning off repulsive connectivity genes permits otherwise blocked neural connections to form.
“when you turn them off, they allow certain connections to form that normally would have not formed.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 21:23
Learned-vocalization neurons fire at higher rates to control vocal muscles.
“When you stick electrodes in the brain areas that control learn vocalizations in these birds, and I think in humans as well, those neurons are firing at a higher rate to control these muscles.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 22:13
Speech-circuit genes include genes involved in neuroplasticity.
“genes that are specialized in the speech circuit are involved in neuroplasticity.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 22:38
Children learn piano and bicycling more easily than adults.
“it's easier to learn how to play a piano, it's easier to learn how to ride a bike for the first time and so forth as a young child than it is later in life.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 23:32
Knowing multiple languages makes learning additional languages easier.
“if you already have them in multiple languages that you're using, then it makes it easier to use them in another third or fourth language.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 24:57
Semantic and affective vocal communication use the same speech or song circuits differently.
“it's the same brain circuits. It's the same speech like or song circuits are being used in different ways.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 26:32
Human speech is more left-dominant, while singing and musical processing are more right-balanced.
“the left in us humans is more dominant for speech, but the right has a more balance for singing or processing musical sounds”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 27:04
Spoken language may have evolved from emotionally communicative singing.
“the evolution of spoken language of speech evolved first for singing for this more like emotional kind of mate attraction”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 27:54
Facial expressions reduce ambiguity in interpreting written or spoken messages.
“The facial expressions get rid of that ambiguity.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 31:04
Reading silently engages speech production without overt muscle movement.
“You silently speak what you read in your brain without moving your muscles.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 31:45
Writing uses at least four brain circuits, including speech production and perception pathways.
“You're using at least four brain circuits, which includes the speech production and the speech perception pathways to write.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 32:38
Basal-ganglia damage or disruption can cause human stuttering.
“It's now known they call this neurogenic stuttering in humans with damage to the basal ganglia or some type of disruption to the basal ganglia at A young age also causes stuttering in humans.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music | Dr. Erich JarvisListen at 34:07
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