LaDIVA: A neurocomputational model providing laryngeal motor control for speech acquisition and production.

ABSTRACT: Many voice disorders are the result of intricate neural and/or biomechanical impairments that are poorly understood. The limited knowledge of their etiological and pathophysiological mechanisms hampers effective clinical management. Behavioral studies have been used concurrently with computational models to better understand typical and pathological laryngeal motor control. Thus far, however, a unified computational framework that quantitatively integrates physiologically relevant models of phonation with the neural control of speech has not been developed. Here, we introduce LaDIVA, a novel neurocomputational model with physiologically based laryngeal motor control. We combined the DIVA model (an established neural network model of speech motor control) with the extended body-cover model

SUBMITTER: Weerathunge HR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9258861 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature