Tobias Riede, Visiting Researcher

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, Indiana, on avian sound production, and with Michael Owren, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, on mammalian sound analysis.

Contact at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts
tobiasriede@web.de
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.

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