2026-04-23
39 分钟Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials, where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools
for mental health, physical health, and performance.
I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
And now for my discussion with Dr. Eric Jarvis.
Eric, so great to have you here.
Thank you.
Very interested in learning from you about speech and language.
In terms of the study of speech and language and thinking about how the brain organizes speech and language,
what are the similarities?
What are the differences?
How should we think about speech and language?
There really isn't such a sharp distinction.
Let me tell you how some people think of it now,
that there 's a separate language module in the brain that has all the algorithms and computations.
That influenced the speech pathway on how to produce sound and the auditory pathway on how to perceive and interpret it
for speech or for sound that we call speech.
I don't think there is any good evidence for a separate language module.
Instead, 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.
And there 's the auditory pathway, that has built within it all the complex algorithms for understanding speech,