What impact can unilateral laryngeal paralysis have on the expression of emotions?

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.)

The role of emotions in learning abstract words

As part of the CNRS 80|Prime call, funding for the PhD project led by Johannes Ziegler (LPC) and Núria Gala (LPL) has been selected among the 2021 laureates! 

Project title: The role of semantic neighborhoods and emotion in the learning of abstract words: from embodied linguistic theory to classroom interventions (LAW)