Sentences with phrase «vocal tract»

The results indicate that sensations from the jaw and vocal tract alone can be used for speech learning.

In the current study we used X-ray cinematographic imaging of naturally vocalizing monk parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus) to assess which articulators are possibly involved in vocal tract filtering in this species.

Clearly, there is increasing evidence for the importance of vocal tract filtering in the production of avian vocalizations.

«Whisper» is a sound installation consisting of compressed air flowing through acoustic resonators based on the shapes human vocal tract takes during speech.

At present, it is unclear to what extent formant - shifting in elephant alarm calls is the result of voluntary vocal tract manipulations, the simple by - product of affective states, or some other mechanism (see [61]-RRB-.

In humans, vowel differentiation is largely affected by vocal tract manipulations, such as tongue placement, and independent shifting of formants is common [45], [58], [59].

But an international team of scientists, led by Tecumseh Fitch at the University of Vienna and Asif Ghazanfar at Princeton University, has now looked inside monkeys» vocal tracts with x-rays, and found them to be much more flexible than thought before.

Story next hopes to create a virtual vocal tract on a computer to study the nuances of the voice.

To find out how this changed the sounds produced, Bart de Boer of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands created artificial vocal tracts from shaped plastic tubes.

X-ray analyses of macaque vocal tract movements show that monkeys» inability to speak is not due to limitations of peripheral anatomy.

A model of the Neanderthal's vocal tract showed it to be similar to a modern human female's and capable of speech.

In this Sneak Peak Ali Miharbi gives an overview of his recent practice, including his sound installation Whisper, that is based on the shapes human vocal tract during speech.

One researcher, Asif Ghazanfar, a neuroscientist at Princeton University, believes that monkeys have adequate vocal tracts to speak like humans do, but their brains lack the proper motor control to actually communicate.

[Jacob C. Dunn et al, Evolutionary Trade - Off between Vocal Tract and Testes Dimensions in Howler Monkeys]

His team took X-ray videos of an adult macaque's vocal tract while the animal cooed, grunted, made threatening sounds, smacked its lips, yawned and ate various foods.

THWARTED SPEAKER Macaque monkeys have vocal tracts capable of producing enough vowel sounds to speak English and many other languages, a new study finds.

They then used these x-rays to build a computer model of a monkey vocal tract, allowing them to answer the question «what would monkey speech sound like, if a human brain were in control?»

«Recognizing words is tricky — we have different accents and different, individual vocal tracts; so the way individuals pronounce particular words always sounds a little different,» he explains.

However, several recent studies have indicated the importance of vocal tract articulators such as the beak and oropharyngeal — esophageal cavity.

Tracheal length changes during zebra finch song and their possible role in upper vocal tract filtering

We observed prominent tongue height changes, beak opening movements and tracheal length changes, which suggests that all of these components play an important role in modulating vocal tract resonance.

Other articulators involved in avian vocal tract filtering include beak movements and gape widths (Hoese et al., 2000; Podos et al., 2004; Nelson et al., 2005).

Macaques have a speech - ready vocal tract but lack a speech - ready brain to control it.

We used x-ray videos to quantify vocal tract dynamics in living macaques during vocalization, facial displays, and feeding.

(2015) Evolutionary trade - off bewteen vocal tract and testes dimensions in howler monkeys.

We demonstrate that the macaque vocal tract could easily produce an adequate range of speech sounds to support spoken language, showing that previous techniques based on postmortem samples drastically underestimated primate vocal capabilities.

The vocal organ of songbirds is more complex than the human larynx, leading to the hypothesis that vocal variation in birdsong originates mainly at the sound source, while in humans it is primarily due to vocal tract filtering.

He believes that even if the primate brain could develop the proper motor skills to communicate their vocal tracts lack the ability to form, «distinct human sounds.»

The anatomy of their vocal tracts would have prevented them from sounding some vowels.

Rebuilding the vocal tracts of extinct creatures could let us hear long - lost sounds: an ancient whale song, the cries of our ancestors.

In speech it's very difficult to get at a lot of things that we want to understand, because humans aren't willing to have needles and probes stuck through their vocal tracts.

Then she added an air compressor to mimic the lungs sending air through the vocal tract.

Story made 22 different vowel and consonant sounds while the scanner recorded the shape of his vocal tract and then processed the images to represent the tract as a solid tube, dissected from the skull.

On a computer, de Boer modeled the acoustic effect of air sacs and then built an actual model of a vocal tract of a Lucy - like creature, incorporating plastic tubing and a chamber to mimic an air sac.

She is also working on the vocal tract of the woolly mammoth.

Using three - dimensional imaging and a burgeoning knowledge of ancient anatomies, scientists can now rebuild ancient creatures» vocal tracts and re-create their sounds.

A Mammoth Noise French artist Marguerite Humeau sculpted Lucy's vocal tract, which today sits in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Her sculpture of the creature's vocal tract is on display now through January 2013 at Cité du Design in central France.

The authors controlled for other possible explanations, such as the possibility that hermit thrushes could select notes using the resonances of their vocal tract in a manner similar to wind instruments like the alphorn.

Neuroscientists David Ostry and Sazzad Nasir of McGill University in Montréal, Canada, suspected that in addition to listening, people pay attention to muscles in their own faces, tongues, and vocal tracts to judge whether they are saying words correctly.

For both signers and speakers, phrase building engaged the same parts of the brain with similar timing: the left anterior temporal and ventromedial cortices, despite different linguistic articulators (the vocal tract vs. the hands).

When we produce a vowel, the vocal tract (throat and oral cavity) behaves like a system of moving pipes with specific resonances.

Cepstral coefficients provide a model of the speaker's vocal tract shape.

But dominance is influenced by morphology, such as the length of one's vocal tract, over which we have no control.

Singers can significantly increase their loudness by adjusting the resonance frequencies of their vocal tract to closely match the fundamental frequency or harmonics of the pitch.