Chaos Theory is considered to be one of the three greatest scientific discoveries in the twentieth century. In the early 1960's using a simple system of equations to model convection in the atmosphere ...

During speech, vocal folds vibrate due to intrinsic laryngeal muscle movement. In some cases, like mutism from apraxia, individuals may have normal vocal fold vibration without sound production due to ...

Vibrating tissue that hums in tune with normal, human vocal cords has been grown in a lab for the first time. The bioengineered tissue opens a route to developing new therapies for people who have ...

Vocal fold (or vocal cord) paralysis occurs when your vocal folds, the two bands of tissue in your larynx (voice box), stop moving. Usually, this occurs because one or both of the nerves that go to ...

In a recent article in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, researchers at Duke University concluded that a speech characteristic known as “vocal fry” may be harmful to people’s career prospects, with ...

Register shifts in professional singers may correspond to altered vocal fold vibration patterns which are audible to experts, according to a study published May 3, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ...

Singer and actress Miley Cyrus is typically very outspoken. But don't expect to hear anything from her for a while. She's been put on vocal rest after undergoing vocal cord surgery. Apparently, Cyrus ...

Up until a year ago, how an elephant made its guttural infrasonic calls was still a matter of debate, as Christian Herbst, from the University of Vienna, Austria, points out: 'Some people suggested it ...

When judged by its size, our vocal system fails to impress as a musical instrument. How then can singers produce all those remarkable sounds? The human vocal system would not receive much acclaim if ...

The study of the phonetics and phonology of voicing and consonant production investigates the intricate processes underlying speech sound generation and perception. Central to this field is the ...

Register shifts in professional singers may correspond to altered vocal fold vibration patterns which are audible to experts, according to a new study. Register shifts in professional singers may ...