Welcome to The Scientist Speaks, a podcast produced by The Scientist’s Creative Services Team where we explore topics at the leading edge of innovative research. In this episode, we spoke with Stephanie White, professor of integrative biology and physiology at UCLA, to explore the neural mechanisms behind birdsong and what they tell us about human vocal learning and speech deficits in diseases such as autism spectrum disorder. 

In this episode, we explored the world of odor and how scientists use the sense of smell to detect and better understand the human brain, disease, and behavior with Noam Sobel, Director of the Azrieli National Center for Human Brain Imaging and Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science.