21 Aug 2018
Before becoming a celebrated neuroscientist and a Howard Hughes investigator, Dr. Erich Jarvis was a dancer. He soon discovered that his interest in dance is closely linked to the brain — after all, it's the organ that controlled his dance movements. Jarvis then decided to join the pursuit of 'how the brain works'.
Rockefeller University
Dr. Erich Jarvis, Professor, Rockefeller University, and a Howard Hughes Investigator, studies neural and genetic mechanisms of spoken language using song-learning birds.