The brain and the voice in speech and song / by F.W. Mott.

  • Mott, F. W. (Frederick Walker), 1853-1926.
Date:
1910
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The brain and the voice in speech and song / by F.W. Mott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    THE BRAIN AND THE VOICE IN SPEECH AND SONG IN the following pages on the Relation of the Brain to the mechanism of the Voice in Speech and Song, I intend, as far as possible, to explain the mechanism of the instrument, and what I know regarding the cerebral mechanism by which the instrument is played upon in the production of the singing voice and articulate speech. Before, however, passing to consider in detail the instrument, I will briefly direct your atten- tion to some facts and theories regarding the origin of speech. THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN OF SPEECH The evolutionary theory is thus pro- pounded by Romanes in his Mental Evolution in Man, pp. 377-399 : Starting from the highly intelligent and social species of anthropoid ape as pictured by Darwin, we can imagine that this animal was ac- customed to use its voice freely for the