Age-related changes in motor control during articulator visuomotor tracking.
The present study provides normative data on changes in visuomotor control of the oral-facial system across the lifespan. Control of the lower lip, jaw, and larynx (i.e., fundamental frequency) was examined using a nonspeech visuomotor tracking (VMT) task, where subjects move the articulator of inte...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 763 - 778 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
August 2001
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