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ArticleApplied sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Vocal Pitch Discrimination in Children with and without Vocal Fold Nodules.

Elizabeth S Heller Murray, Anne F Hseu, Roger C Nuss, Geralyn Harvey Woodnorth, Cara E Stepp

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Article in Applied sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Pediatric Vocal Mechanism: Structure and Function.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2025
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  3. Voice Onset Time in Children With and Without Vocal Fold Nodules.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023
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5 authors.

Elizabeth S Heller MurrayDepartment of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Anne F HseuDepartment of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Roger C NussDepartment of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Geralyn Harvey WoodnorthDepartment of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Cara E SteppDepartment of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

Funding

Use of ambulatory biofeedback to improve behavioral treatment of vocal hyperfunctionP50DC015446 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Robert E Hillman · 2017 to 2026
$25.5M
Vocal motor control in children with vocal nodulesF31DC016197 · NIDCD · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI HELLER MURRAY, ELIZABETH SALMON · 2017 to 2018
$77k
NIDCD NIH HHS F31 DC016197NIDCD NIH HHS P50 DC015446
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vocal pitch discrimination abilities were compared in sixteen children with vocal fold nodules (CwVN) and sixteen matched controls with typical voices (CwTV). Vocal pitch discrimination was also evaluated in thirty-five vocally healthy children and twenty adults to examine potential changes as a function of maturation. CwTV were categorized as either younger (N = 15, 5.6-7.7 years) or older (N = 20, 8.2-11.7 years). Participants completed two-alternative, forced choice listening tasks in which they judged whether pairs of sustained /α/ tokens were different in pitch. Each pair consisted of a base token with a fundamental frequency

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auditory discriminationpitchvocal fold nodulesvoice

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PMID31840003
PMCPMC6910133

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