Exploring human speech production mechanisms by MRI

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E87-D, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1050-1058

  Honda, Kiyoshi ^a   Takemoto, Hironori ^a   Kitamura, Tatsuya ^a   Fujita, Satoru ^a   Takano, Sayoko ^a,b  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Speech physiology; Speech production; Vocal tract acoustics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION ESTIMATION; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; VISUALIZATION;

SPEECH PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PRODUCTION; VOCAL TRACT ACOUSTICS;

SPEECH;

EID: 2642571033     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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