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Acoustic information about upper limb movement in voicing

We show that the human voice has complex acoustic qualities that are directly coupled to peripheral musculoskeletal tensioning of the body, such as subtle wrist movements. In this study, human vocalizers produced a steady-state vocalization while rhythmically moving the wrist or the arm at different...

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Autores principales: Pouw, Wim, Paxton, Alexandra, Harrison, Steven J., Dixon, James A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7260986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32393618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004163117
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description We show that the human voice has complex acoustic qualities that are directly coupled to peripheral musculoskeletal tensioning of the body, such as subtle wrist movements. In this study, human vocalizers produced a steady-state vocalization while rhythmically moving the wrist or the arm at different tempos. Although listeners could only hear and not see the vocalizer, they were able to completely synchronize their own rhythmic wrist or arm movement with the movement of the vocalizer which they perceived in the voice acoustics. This study corroborates recent evidence suggesting that the human voice is constrained by bodily tensioning affecting the respiratory–vocal system. The current results show that the human voice contains a bodily imprint that is directly informative for the interpersonal perception of another’s dynamic physical states.
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spelling pubmed-72609862020-06-08 Acoustic information about upper limb movement in voicing Pouw, Wim Paxton, Alexandra Harrison, Steven J. Dixon, James A. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Social Sciences We show that the human voice has complex acoustic qualities that are directly coupled to peripheral musculoskeletal tensioning of the body, such as subtle wrist movements. In this study, human vocalizers produced a steady-state vocalization while rhythmically moving the wrist or the arm at different tempos. Although listeners could only hear and not see the vocalizer, they were able to completely synchronize their own rhythmic wrist or arm movement with the movement of the vocalizer which they perceived in the voice acoustics. This study corroborates recent evidence suggesting that the human voice is constrained by bodily tensioning affecting the respiratory–vocal system. The current results show that the human voice contains a bodily imprint that is directly informative for the interpersonal perception of another’s dynamic physical states. National Academy of Sciences 2020-05-26 2020-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7260986/ /pubmed/32393618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004163117 Text en Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) .
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title_short Acoustic information about upper limb movement in voicing
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7260986/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004163117
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