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A Review of Singing Voice Subsystem Interactions—Toward an Extended Physiological Model of “Support” by Herbst, Christian T

“…Summary During phonation, the respiratory, the phonatory, and the resonatory parts of the voice organ can interact, where physiological action in one subsystem…”
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An Asian Elephant Imitates Human Speech by Stoeger, Angela S., Mietchen, Daniel, Oh, Sukhun, de Silva, Shermin, Herbst, Christian T., Kwon, Soowhan, Fitch, W. Tecumseh

“…Vocal imitation has convergently evolved in many species, allowing learning and cultural transmission of complex, conspecific sounds, as in birdsong [1, 2]…”
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Evolutionary loss of complexity in human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for speech by Nishimura, Takeshi, Tokuda, Isao T., Miyachi, Shigehiro, Dunn, Jacob C., Herbst, Christian T., Ishimura, Kazuyoshi, Kaneko, Akihisa, Kinoshita, Yuki, Koda, Hiroki, Saers, Jaap P. P., Imai, Hirohiko, Matsuda, Tetsuya, Larsen, Ole Næsbye, Jürgens, Uwe, Hirabayashi, Hideki, Kojima, Shozo, Fitch, W. Tecumseh

“…Human speech production obeys the same acoustic principles as vocal production in other animals but has distinctive features: A stable vocal source is filtered…”
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Acoustic allometry revisited: morphological determinants of fundamental frequency in primate vocal production by Garcia, Maxime, Herbst, Christian T., Bowling, Daniel L., Dunn, Jacob C., Fitch, W. Tecumseh

“…A fundamental issue in the evolution of communication is the degree to which signals convey accurate (“honest”) information about the signaler. In…”
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Biomechanics of sound production in high-pitched classical singing by Echternach, Matthias, Burk, Fabian, Köberlein, Marie, Döllinger, Michael, Burdumy, Michael, Richter, Bernhard, Titze, Ingo R., Elemans, Coen P. H., Herbst, Christian T.

“…Voice production of humans and most mammals is governed by the MyoElastic-AeroDynamic (MEAD) principle, where an air stream is modulated by self-sustained…”
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Toward a consensus on symbolic notation of harmonics, resonances, and formants in vocalization by Titze, Ingo R, Baken, Ronald J, Bozeman, Kenneth W, Granqvist, Svante, Henrich, Nathalie, Herbst, Christian T, Howard, David M, Hunter, Eric J, Kaelin, Dean, Kent, Raymond D, Kreiman, Jody, Kob, Malte, Löfqvist, Anders, McCoy, Scott, Miller, Donald G, Noé, Hubert, Scherer, Ronald C, Smith, John R, Story, Brad H, Švec, Jan G, Ternström, Sten, Wolfe, Joe

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How Low Can You Go? Physical Production Mechanism of Elephant Infrasonic Vocalizations by Herbst, Christian T., Stoeger, Angela S., Frey, Roland, Lohscheller, Jörg, Titze, Ingo R., Gumpenberger, Michaela, Fitch, W. Tecumseh

“…Elephants can communicate using sounds below the range of human hearing ("infrasounds" below 20 hertz). It is commonly speculated that these vocalizations are…”
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Glottal opening and closing events investigated by electroglottography and super-high-speed video recordings by Herbst, Christian T, Lohscheller, Jörg, Švec, Jan G, Henrich, Nathalie, Weissengruber, Gerald, Fitch, W Tecumseh

“…Previous research has suggested that the peaks in the first derivative (dEGG) of the electroglottographic (EGG) signal are good approximate indicators of the…”
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The influence of vocal fold mass lesions on the passaggio region of professional singers by Echternach, Matthias, Burk, Fabian, Burdumy, Michael, Herbst, Christian T., Köberlein, Marie, Döllinger, Michael, Richter, Bernhard

“…Objectives/Hypothesis In professional classical singing, an even voice quality throughout the entire singing voice range is essential. Transitions between…”
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Social origins of rhythm? Synchrony and temporal regularity in human vocalization by Bowling, Daniel L, Herbst, Christian T, Fitch, W Tecumseh

“…Humans have a capacity to perceive and synchronize with rhythms. This is unusual in that only a minority of other species exhibit similar behavior. Study of…”
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Electroglottography – An Update by Herbst, Christian T.

“…Electroglottography (EGG) is a low-cost, noninvasive technology for measuring changes of relative vocal fold contact area during laryngeal voice production…”
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Relationship Between the Electroglottographic Signal and Vocal Fold Contact Area by Hampala, Vít, Garcia, Maxime, Švec, Jan G, Scherer, Ronald C, Herbst, Christian T

“…Summary Objective Electroglottography (EGG) is a widely used noninvasive method that purports to measure changes in relative vocal fold contact area (VFCA)…”
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Japanese macaque phonatory physiology by Herbst, Christian T, Koda, Hiroki, Kunieda, Takumi, Suzuki, Juri, Garcia, Maxime, Fitch, W Tecumseh, Nishimura, Takeshi

“…While the call repertoire and its communicative function is relatively well explored in Japanese macaques ( ), little empirical data is available on the…”
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Structural Classification of Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Vocalizations by Garcia, Maxime, Gingras, Bruno, Bowling, Daniel L., Herbst, Christian T., Boeckle, Markus, Locatelli, Yann, Fitch, W. Tecumseh

“…Determining whether a species' vocal communication system is graded or discrete requires definition of its vocal repertoire. In this context, research on…”
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Membranous and cartilaginous vocal fold adduction in singing by Herbst, Christian T, Qiu, Qingjun, Schutte, Harm K, Švec, Jan G

“…While vocal fold adduction is an important parameter in speech, relatively little has been known on the adjustment of the vocal fold adduction in singing. This…”
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Visualization of system dynamics using phasegrams by Herbst, Christian T., Herzel, Hanspeter, Švec, Jan G., Wyman, Megan T., Fitch, W. Tecumseh

“…A new tool for visualization and analysis of system dynamics is introduced: the phasegram. Its application is illustrated with both classical nonlinear systems…”
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Complex vibratory patterns in an elephant larynx by Herbst, Christian T, Svec, Jan G, Lohscheller, Jörg, Frey, Roland, Gumpenberger, Michaela, Stoeger, Angela S, Fitch, W Tecumseh

“…Elephants' low-frequency vocalizations are produced by flow-induced self-sustaining oscillations of laryngeal tissue. To date, little is known in detail about…”
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Performance Evaluation of Subharmonic-to-Harmonic Ratio (SHR) Computation by Herbst, Christian T.

“…Subharmonics are an important class of voice signals, relevant for speech, pathological voice, singing, and animal bioacoustics. They arise from special cases…”
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Electroglottographic wavegrams: A technique for visualizing vocal fold dynamics noninvasively by Herbst, Christian T., Fitch, W. Tecumseh S., Švec, Jan G.

“…A method for analyzing and displaying electroglottographic (EGG) signals (and their first derivative, DEGG) is introduced: the electroglottographic wavegram…”
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Voices in the ocean by Ravignani, Andrea, Herbst, Christian T

“…Toothed whales evolved a third way of making sounds similar to that of land mammals and birds…”
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