Tobias Riede, Ph.D., DVM
 Tobias
Riede is a visiting researcher at the National Center for Voice
and Speech. He is a Leopoldina Research Fellow, and conducts research
on the sound production in mammals and birds. The mechanisms (acoustics,
physiology, neural control) of vocal production are similar in humans,
nonhuman mammals, and birds. Comparative analysis of living animals
provides a useful tool for the understanding of the mechanisms of
the human voice and the evolution of human speech.
Dr. Riede received a Degree of Veterinary Medicine
and a Ph.D. in Zoology in Berlin, Germany under the direction of
Günter Tembrock and Hanspeter Herzel. He worked with Rod Suthers
at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN on avian sound production,
and with Michael Owren, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA on
mammalian sound analysis.
Selected publications
Riede, T, Suthers, RA, Fletcher, NH, Blevins, WE (2006): Songbirds tune their
vocal tract to the fundamental frequency of their song. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science 103: 5543-5548.
Fletcher, N., Riede, T., Suthers, R.A. (2006):
Model for vocalization by a bird with distensible vocal cavity and
open beak. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119: 1005-1011.
Riede, T., Bronson, E., Hatzikirou, H., Zuberbühler,
K. (2006): Multiple discontinuities in nonhuman vocal tracts - A
response to Lieberman (2006). Journal of Human Evolution, 50: 222-225.
Riede, T., Mitchell, B.R., Tokuda, I., Owren M.J.
(2005): Characterizing noise in nonhuman vocalizations: Acoustic
analysis and human perception of barks by coyotes and dogs. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America., 118: 514-522.
Riede, T., Arcadi, A.C., Owren, M. (2004): Nonlinear
acoustics in pant hoots of common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes):
Frequency jumps, subharmonics, biphonation, and deterministic chaos.
American Journal Primatology 64: 277-291.
Riede, T., Beckers, G. J.L., Blevins, W., Suthers,
R.A. (2004): Inflation of the Esophagus and Vocal Tract Filtering
in Ring Doves. Journal of Experimental Biology, 207: 4025-4036.
Contact Info:
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts
National Center for Voice and Speech
1101 13th Street
Denver, CO 80204
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