Postural and muscular effects of upper-limb movements on voicing
Pouw, W.; Burchardt, L. S.; Selen, L.
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Voice production can be a whole-body affair: Upper limb movements physically impact the voice in steady-state vocalization, speaking, and singing. This is supposedly due to biomechanical impulses on the chest-wall, affecting subglottal pressure. Unveiling such biomechanics is important, as humans gesture with their hands in a synchronized way with speaking. Here we assess biomechanical interactions between arm movements and the voice, by measurement of key (respiratory-related) muscles with electromyography (EMG) during different types of upper limb movement while measuring the bodys center of mass. We show that gesture-related muscle activations scale with positive peaks in the voices amplitude. Some of these muscles also strongly associate with changes in the center mass, confirming that gesture-vocal coupling partly arises due to posture-related muscle activity. If replicated, these results suggest an evolutionary ancient gesture-vocal connection at the level of biomechanics. These preliminary results will support a pre-registration of analyses for a larger-scale confirmatory study.
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