Dr. Erich Jarvis

Controlling what you hear with what you output in a thoughtful, controlled way helps reduce the stuttering.

Texting.

Texting actually has allowed for more rapid communication amongst people.

It's more like a use it or lose it kind of a thing with the brain.

The more you use a particular brain region or circuit, the more enhanced.

It's like a muscle.

The more you exercise it, the more healthier it is, the bigger it becomes, and the more space it takes, and the more you lose something else.

So I think texting is not decreasing the speech prowess or the intellectual prowess of speech.

It's converting it and using it a lot in a different way.

in a way that may not be as rich in regular writing because you can only communicate so much nuance in short term writing.

But whatever is being done, you got people texting hours and hours and hours on the phone.

So whatever your thumb circuit is gonna get pretty big actually.

Yeah.

What I've discovered personally, right, is that so when I switched from pursuing a career in science from a career in dance, I thought one day I would stop dancing.

But I haven't because I find it fulfilling for me.

And there have been periods of time, like during the pandemic, where I slowed down on dancing and so forth.

And when you do that, you realize, okay, there are parts of your body where your muscle tone decreases a little bit and somewhat, or you could start to gain weight.

I somehow don't gain weight that easily, and I think it's related to my dance, if that's meaningful to your audience.

But what I found is in science, we like to think of a separation between movement and action and cognition.

And there is a separation for you between perception and production, cognition being perception, production being movement, right?