Hello! My name is Carly Yarbrough and I am an Education Assistant with the BFE. I started studying biofeedback this past year and, having had to educate myself about all the terminology, I know that it is sometimes hard to keep up with all the jargon! So I’m going to give a brief cheat-sheet to those who, like me, are still very new to the field of biofeedback:
-Biofeedback: the process through which a person becomes aware of and learns to control various physiological functions, such as breathing, heartrate, brain activity and muscle tension.
-Electromyograph (EMG): technique that uses surface electrodes to record muscle activity
-Electroencephalograph (EEG): technique that uses surface electrodes to measure electrical activity of the brain.
-Neurofeedback: EEG biofeedback.
Dr Kirkpatrick's voice training method involves using the lower
laryngeal position while singing. Using EMG biofeedback to monitor
muscle activity in the neck helps a singer to learn which muscles to
contract to achieve this position!
Here's a video preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-O6K_s6_x8&list=UUlPSIffDA_0T0vYeQ5HK-gQ&index=1&feature=plcp
