Physiological evidence for central modulation of voice tremor.

Abstract:

:The present report presents an attempt to define the physiological parameter used to describe "voice tremor" in psychological stress evaluating machines, and to find its sources. This parameter was found to be a low frequency (5-20 Hz) random process which frequency modulates the vocal cord waveform and (independently) affects the frequency range of the third speech formant. The frequency variations in unstressed speakers were found to be the result of forced muscular undulations driven by central nervous signals and not of a passive resonant phenomenon. In this paper various physiological and clinical experiments which lead to the above conclusions are discussed. a) It is shown that induced muscular activity in the vocal tract and vocal cord regions can generate tremor in the voice. b) It is shown that relaxed subjects exhibit significant tremor correlation between spontaneously generated speech and EMG, with the EMG leading the speech tremor. c) Tremor in the electrical activity recorded from muscles overlapping vocal tract area was correlated with third formant demodulated signal and vocal cord demodulated pitch tremor was correlated with first formant demodulated tremor. d) Enhanced tremor was found in Parkinson patients and diminished tremor in patients with some traumatic brain injuries.

journal_name

Biol Cybern

journal_title

Biological cybernetics

authors

Inbar GF,Eden G

doi

10.1007/BF00340063

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1983-01-01 00:00:00

pages

1-12

issue

1

eissn

0340-1200

issn

1432-0770

journal_volume

47

pub_type

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