Electropalatography: thermo-formed pseudopalates and the use of three-dimensional display.
Electropalatography provides a method of recording contact of the tongue against the palate; this has valuable potential in linguistics, phonetics, speech therapy, oral physiology and dentistry. The application of the technique has been limited by the time required to produce a plate (pseudopalate) carrying electrodes for each person studied. The bulk of an acrylic plate also imposes some interference with speech. A simple, relatively fast, method of producing very thin plates is described. The use of models to provide three-dimensional display is illustrated and the value of slow speed play-back of data is discussed.
D003626:Data Display; D004566:Electrodes; D004568:Electrodiagnosis / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D009068:Movement; D010159:Palate / Q000502:physiology*; D010969:Plastics; D013060:Speech; D014059:Tongue / Q000502:physiology*
D010969:Plastics