Several members of the Phoniatry team at Marseille's La Conception University Hospital and the LPL have published this month a new scientific article studying the impact of laryngeal paralysis on the speaker's vocal transmission of emotions.

Reference: Ralph Haddad, Alexia Mattei, Caterina Petrone, Marie Cachi-Pouyenne, Estelle Bogdanski, Camille Galant, Antoine Giovanni (2024). Alterations in Emotional Expression Through Speech in Patients With Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis: A Preliminary Study. Journal of Voice (online 2024/08/08)

⟨https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2024.07.010⟩.

Link to the full text article: Alterations in Emotional Expression Through Speech in Patients With Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis: A Preliminary Study - ScienceDirect (univ-amu.fr)

A: Equal distribution of sentences produced by patients with laryngeal paralysis in neutral, anger and sadness.
B: Uneven perception of emotions by the jury, who consider the sentences heard to be mainly neutral in emotion.

Credits: Elsevier (1st ill.) / the authors (2nd ill.)