Vocal Fold Physiology

The material in this volume was delivered at the International Conference on the Physiology and Biophysics of Voice in Iowa City, Iowa, USA, May 7-11, 1983. It was the third in a series of conferences planned in the initial stages by several members of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Voice Foundation. These individuals were Drs. Hirano, Fujimura, Titze, and Gould. It was felt that a collection of in-depth papers on vocal fold physiology would require the joint work of representative researchers from around the world, each having different disciplines and working environments. Dr. Stevens joined the group of advisors and assumed the important role of becoming one of the co-editors of the first volume, together with Dr. Hirano. This first volume consisted of a collection of papers given in Kurume, Japan in 1980, and was published by Tokyo University Press. The second volume, edited by Drs. Bless and Abbs and published by College-Hill Press, describes the proceedings of the first US conference held in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1981. The fourth conference is now scheduled for New Haven, Connecticut, and will be under the direction of Drs. Katherine Hanis and Thomas Baer.