Intrinsic Laryngeal Muscle Response to a Public Speech Preparation Stressor

Conclusions This study characterizes ILM responses to psychological stress in vocally healthy participants. Some of the female adults in this study appeared to be “laryngeal stress responders,” as evidenced by increased activity of the ILMs during a silent (i.e., nonvocal, nonspeech) speech preparation task that they considered to be stressful.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research