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The human voice aligns with whole-body kinetics.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Toward a Fuller Integration of Respiratory Rhythms Into Research on Infant Vocal and Motor Development.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-Speech Hand Movements.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
- Vocalisations are coupled with movement of all limbs throughout infancy.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The human voice aligns with whole-body kinetics.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Decoding Prosodic Information from Motion Capture Data: The Gravity of Co-Speech Gestures.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
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Abstract
Humans often vocalize while concurrently gesturing with their hands. Fluctuations in the intensity and tone of the voice have been shown to synchronize with gestural upper limb movement. This research provides direct evidence that (postural) muscle activity associated with arm movements predict these voicing fluctuations. We show that specific muscles (e.g. pectoralis major, erector spinae), associated with upper limb movement and their postural anticipations, are especially likely to interact with the voice. Adding a 1 kg mass to the upper limb increased this interaction. Ground-reaction forces were also found to relate to postural muscles, and these measurements also directly covaried with fluctuations in the voice during some movement conditions. These results show that the voice co-patterns with whole-body kinetics (i.e. forces). We thereby go beyond kinematic analyses in studying interactions between gesturing and vocalization, invoking several implications for biomechanical modelling. We conclude that human voicing has evolved in a dynamical interaction with the whole-body motor system.
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