Is There a Critical Age or Period for Learning Languages? | Dr. Erich Jarvis & Dr. Andrew Huberman

[@HubermanLabClips]

This clip is from the Huberman Lab episode "Dr. Erich Jarvis: The Neuroscience of Speech, Language & Music." The full episode can be found on KZbin here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gofbfZKmlNCHpcU

[@DAmicoDanceHouston]

What an excellent episode. Thank you both so much. I am a dance teacher of 36 years in Houston. I love what you're working on. I've been teaching the benefits of dance on the brain for 20 + years. It's is truly remarkable what I've witnessed in my own students through dance therapy. To have a conversation with you would be amazing. Keep killin' it, Dr. Huberman and best to you, Dr. Jarvis.

[@VictorSneller]

When did they answer the question? I missed it.

[@matmachina]

My Brother and I were boarn in Bulgaria, we both learned Russian from out grandmother. We moved to Australia and learned english. Now i live in germany and speak german while my brother studies in Austria and picked up some german there. When we speak to each other there is rarely a sentence spoken in onyl one of these 4 languages.

[@PangetKano]

Did I miss the answer? What are the critical years?

[@PangetKano]

@@MM-qg5xh Everyone knows language learning is easier in “childhood,” I was expecting a more specific age range.

[@StangspringDK]

@@PangetKano I was told, during a course on physical training, that there are specific windows for aquiring certain skills. Within these windows, we are more susceptible to aquire one or more skills, than outside the window. According to the instructor, being subjected to different languages at the age from 5-7, makes it easier to learn other languages later in life. The reasoning is long forgotten though.

[@iltenahmet]

The title is misleading!

[@jeffreycharroux4577]

Apparently, you do not comprehend Zebra Finchish.

[@Rakyr]

I think there are advantages to both, for example because as an adult you can be more conscientious, you can learn good habits earlier where as a child, you are not as aware of your mistakes but you have an instinctive learning style.

[@anitahernandez1207]

2:30 - Dr. Jarvis - Song Birds (vocal learning birds) and their “underlying genes”. Genesis 1:24,25 - “according to their kinds”. Culture, however, is another topic on its own but related. (Genesis 11:1-9) Human attributes, for a lack of a scientific term, are universally similar, despite differences in language or dialect. I keep meaning to finish listening to this interview, it’s interesting.

[@jamesmccloud7535]

We can learn languages even as adults through comprehensible input based on the research about language acquisition, primarily from the linguist Stephen Krashen.

[@gonzalodelacruz9831]

The question on the title wasn't answered (?)

[@arasheskandari4023]

Hello,thanks for sharing. But pidgin refers to a langusge used as a means of communication ,who has different languages,mainly associated with trade.

[@iltenahmet]

Misleading title!

[@DAmicoDanceHouston]

The comments are funny, I'm just reading them. I was like, what??.. I was so wrapped up in the other stuff they were talking about, that I didn't even notice how quickly they skip over that part. I could tell that they were moving onto something much bigger. This is some really cool stuff.

[@RajSodhi1]

Before puberty

[@HarmonicTauros]

I go to the same sort of style

[@memastarful]

Oh and hello Andrew 👋 ☺ you are a precious soul. Keep up the fantastic job you are doing. So proud of you.

[@fayekalan]

we cant learn language later on in life ? even with Total immersion ? Bollocks .

[@nate9198]

I mean I know a women in her 60's thats been learning Spanish for the last 4 years just casually and can have long conversations with native speakers, she also learned Greek to fluency in her late twenties and thirties. Its just easier in childhood to acquire and maintain fluency probably.

[@FelipeAguilera-n1j]

un saludo a pabs

[@memastarful]

🐦 I love birds especially on my early morning walks. They each have such unique song. It's so beautiful and pleasant to hear. 🦜 I sometimes wonder if they are worshipping God in there own way.

[@fantustiq]

Sick birds are illeagle

[@airplanebuilder8685]

Pidgin.