Neuromuscular control of voice production and quality
Humans are capable of producing a large variety of voice types, which is achieved through laryngeal muscle activation. One ultimate goal of voice research is to understand laryngeal muscle activation and how it affects vocal fold biomechanics and the resulting vocal fold vibration and voice quality. In this project, we developed an ex-vivo perfused human larynx model which allows parametric stimulation of individual or coordinated laryngeal muscles in a laboratory setting to study its effects on phonation (Berke et al., 2013).
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Berke, G., Mendelsohn, A., Howard, N.S., Zhang, Z. (2013). Neuromuscular induced phonation in a human ex vivo perfused larynx preparation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 133, EL114-EL117. [link]