A cervid vocal fold model suggests greater glottal efficiency in calling at high frequencies

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Titze, Ingo R ^a,b   Riede, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; AERODYNAMICS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH;

AERODYNAMIC POWER; BODY SIZES; CERVUS ELAPHUS; FOLD MODELING; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTENSITY LEVELS; MATINGS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; VOCAL FOLDS;

EFFICIENCY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY SIZE; ENDURANCE; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; LUNG PRESSURE; MALE; MATING; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; OSCILLATION; RED DEER; SOUND; SOUND INTENSITY; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION;

AJUGA REPTANS; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; CERVUS ELAPHUS NELSONI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 78049438488     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000897     Document Type: Article

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