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Erich Jarvis is an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center. He leads a team of researchers who study the neurobiology of vocal learning, a critical behavioral substrate for spoken language. The animal models he studies include songbirds, parrots and hummingbirds. Like humans, these bird groups have the ability to learn new sounds and pass on their vocal repertoires culturally, from one generation to the next. Jarvis focuses on the molecular pathways involved in the perception and production of learned vocalizations, and the development of brain circuits for vocal learning. To accomplish this objective, Dr. Jarvis takes an integrative approach to research, combining behavioral, anatomical, electrophysiological, and molecular biological techniques. The discoveries of Dr. Jarvis and his collaborators include the first findings of natural behaviorally regulated gene expression in the brain, social context dependent gene regulation, convergent vocal learning systems across distantly related animal groups, the FOXP2 gene in vocal learning birds, and the finding that vocal learning systems may have evolved out of ancient motor learning systems. In 2002, the National Science Foundation awarded Jarvis its highest honor for a young researcher, the Alan T. Waterman Award.〔 (Singing In The Brain ), Duke Magazine, Nov-Dec 2001.〕 In 2005 he was awarded the National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award〔(), Duke News〕 providing funding for five years to researchers pursuing innovative approaches to biomedical research. In 2008 Dr. Jarvis was selected to the prestigious position of Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.〔(), Dukehealth.〕 Jarvis received a B.A. from Hunter College and a Ph.D. from Rockefeller University. == Selected Publications on Neurobiology of Vocal Learning == * Jarvis ED, Nottebohm F. Motor-driven gene expression. (1997) http://www.jarvislab.net/Publications/pnas94-4097.pdf Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 94:4097-4102 * Jarvis ED, Scharff C, Grossman M, Ramos JA, Nottebohm F. For whom the bird sings: context-dependent gene expression. (1998) http://www.jarvislab.net/Publications/Neuron21-775.pdf Neuron 21:775-788. * Jarvis ED, Ribeiro S, Vielliard J, DaSilva M, Ventura D, Mello CV. Behaviorally-driven gene expression reveals hummingbird brain song nuclei. (2000) : http://www.jarvislab.net/Publications/JarvisEtAl2000(Nature).pdf Nature 406:628-632. * Jarvis ED. Learned birdsong and the neurobiology of human language.(2004) http://www.jarvislab.net/Publications/Jarvis_Birdsong_Language.pdf Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1016: 746-777. * Haesler S, Wada K, Nshdejan A, Morrisey E, Lints EKT, Jarvis ED, Scharff C. FoxP2 expression in avian vocal learners and non-learners. (2004) http://www.jarvislab.net/Publications/FoxP2Expression.pdf J. Neurosci. 24:3164-3175 * Jarvis ED, O Güntürkün, L Bruce, A Csillag, HJ Karten, W Kuenzel, L Medina, G Paxinos, DJ Perkel, T Shimizu, GF Striedter, M Wild, GF Ball, J Dugas-Ford, S Durand, G Hough, S Husband, L Kubikova, DW Lee, CV. Mello, A Powers, C Siang, TV Smulders, K Wada, SA White, K Yamamoto, J Yu, A Reiner, AB Butler. Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium. Avian brains and a new understanding of vertebrate brain evolution. (2005) http://www.jarvislab.net/Publications/avianbrainnomenclature.pdf Nature Rev Neurosci. 6:151-159. * Mouritsen H, Feenders G, Liedvogel M, Wada K, Jarvis ED. A night vision brain area in migratory songbirds. (2005) http://www.jarvislab.net/Publications/NightVisionBrain.pdf Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102:8339-8344. * Wada K, Howard JT, McConnell P, Lints T, Rivas MV, Whitney O, Horita H, Patterson MA, White SA, Scharff C, Heasler S, Zhao S, Sakaguchi H, Hagiwara M, Shiraki T, Hirozane-Kishikawa T, Skene P, Hayashizaki Y, Carninci P, Jarvis ED. A molecular neuroethological approach for identifying and characterizing a cascade of behaviorally regulated genes.(2006) http://www.jarvislab.net/Publications/Wada%20et%20al%20corrected.pdf Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103:15212-15217. * Smith VA, Yu J, Smulders TV, Hartemink AJ, Jarvis ED. Computational inference of neural information flow networks. (2006) http://www.jarvislab.net/Publications/Smith%20et%20al%20main%20text%202006.pdf PLoS Comp. Biol. 2:1436-1449. * Feenders G, Liedvogel M, Rivas MV, Zapka M, Horita H, Hara E, Wada K, Mouritsen H, Jarvis ED. Molecular mapping of movement-associated areas in the avian brain: A Motor theory for vocal learning origin. (2008) http://www.jarvislab.net/Publications/Feenders_et_al_2008.pdf PLoS ONE 3(3): e1768, 1-27. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Erich Jarvis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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