Medically reviewed by Lauren Schlanger, MD The recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) anatomy is designed to supply function to most muscles of the larynx (voice box). It branches from the vagus nerve ...

By using ultra-high-speed photography at approximately 5,000 frames per second, the film reveals the intricate and rapid movements of the larynx in slow motion.

Evolutionary simplification in the human larynx – the loss of vocal membranes and air sacs common to all nonhuman primates – enabled the increased acoustic complexity required by human speech ...

The researchers studied laryngeal anatomy in apes including chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons, as well as Old World monkeys including macaques, guenons, baboons and mandrills and New ...

Home > Review > Anatomy and development and physiology of the larynx > Table 3. Table 3 - Efficiency and latency of responses to stimulation of branches of the superior laryngeal nerves.

Using MRI and computed tomography, Nishimura and his colleagues inspected the larynx anatomy of 43 species from 25 genera. The painstaking work revealed that all of them had a structure that is known ...

Why are humans the only primates that can speak? Spoken language may have been made possible by simplification of the laryngeal anatomy, including the loss of vocal membranes and air sacs that are ...