{"id":299,"date":"2025-11-12T15:48:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/?page_id=299"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:42:09","slug":"theoretical-rd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/theoretical-rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Theoretical R&amp;D"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"299\" class=\"elementor elementor-299\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ec2c13 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3ec2c13\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ace486b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ace486b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Theoretical research<\/h4><p>Articulate Instruments is a vehicle for piloting speculative research without the need to apply for funding.<\/p><p>In 2014 data from the visual human project and Amira segmentation software was used to trace muscle fibre paths without prejudice of the prevailing 8 muscle model. This indicated a finer structure. Reviews of work by reseachers in other fields working on histology, anatomy and electromyography supported this view of a finer <a href=\"https:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/anatomy-neurophysiology\/\">neuromuscular compartmental structure<\/a>.<\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1514\" src=\"http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SMC-poster-The-compartmental-tongue-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1124\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SMC-poster-The-compartmental-tongue-sm.jpg 1124w, http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SMC-poster-The-compartmental-tongue-sm-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SMC-poster-The-compartmental-tongue-sm-1024x724.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SMC-poster-The-compartmental-tongue-sm-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1124px) 100vw, 1124px\" \/><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>To test the efficacy of this compartmental structure bespoke <a href=\"https:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/biomechanical-tongue-model\/\">biomechanical modelling<\/a> software (GGSim) was developed and a model of the tongue structure built from the mesh generation component of the software.\u00a0<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1519\" src=\"http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GGsim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GGsim.jpg 989w, http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GGsim-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GGsim-768x552.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p><p>Work has also been carried out examining the role that different levels of the neural system play in <a href=\"https:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/speech-motor-control\/\">motor control of movements<\/a>. One key finding being that motor neurons and interneurons in motor nuclei are responsible for controlling movement of articulators from current position to target.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1521\" src=\"http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/A-pulse-step-model-of-speech-motor-control-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/A-pulse-step-model-of-speech-motor-control-sm.jpg 795w, http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/A-pulse-step-model-of-speech-motor-control-sm-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/A-pulse-step-model-of-speech-motor-control-sm-724x1024.jpg 724w, http:\/\/articulateinstruments.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/A-pulse-step-model-of-speech-motor-control-sm-768x1086.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretical research Articulate Instruments is a vehicle for piloting speculative research without the need to apply for funding. 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