Sounding Tall
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
Our voice can reveal a lot about us: our age, our gender, and now - it seems - our height as well. A new study by researchers at Washington University, UCLA, and Indiana University found that listeners can accurately determine the relative heights of speakers just by listening to them talk. The key clue may be contained in a particular type of sound produced in the lower airways of the lungs, known as a subglottal resonance.