Intrinsic Laryngeal Muscle Response to a Public Speech Preparation Stressor: Personality and Autonomic Predictors
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Purpose: Laboratory stressors have been shown to impact the activity of the intrinsic laryngeal muscles (ILMs), which may be part of the final causal pathway in some stress-induced voice disorders. Previous research suggests that personality traits such as stress reaction might increase one's susceptibility to these problems. Also, the autonomic nervous system response is implicated in the pathogenesis of voice disorders putatively involving ILM hyperfunction. The purpose of this study was to investigate personality and autonomic nervous system predictors of ILM responses to stressor exposure. Method: Thirty-seven physically and vocally healthy female adults completed a personality questionnaire and were subjected to a speech preparation task intended to induce stress. Fine wire electromyography of the ILMs was performed so that the activity of these muscles could be measured prior to and during the stressor. Participants' trait stress reaction was measured as a personality-based predictive variable, as was respiratory-corrected respiratory sinus arrhythmia, a putative measure of vagal outflow to the heart. Results: The personality measure trait stress reaction uniquely predicted thyroarytenoid, trapezius, and tibialis activity, whereas respiratory sinus arrhythmia uniquely predicted the activity of all muscles studied. Differences were observed in the autonomic predictor variable as a function of whether or not effects of respiration were accounted for in the variable's calculation. Conclusions: This study explores the potential mediating roles of personality and autonomic function in ILM activity during a stressor. Both variables have value in predicting ILM activity during stressor exposure.
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Sympathetic activation could induce changes in intrinsic laryngeal muscle activity during a silent speech-preparation task, without active phonation or functional voice assessment.
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Mapping the Neurophysiological Link Between Voice and Autonomic Function: A Scoping Review
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“Along these lines, sympathetic activation could induce changes in intrinsic laryngeal muscle activity during a silent speech-preparation task, without active phonation or functional voice assessment [18].”
- Authors
- Helou, L. B., Jennings, J. R., Rosen, C. A., Wang, W., & Verdolini Abbott, K.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital (US)
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Delaware, Newark
- Venue
- Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Published
- 2020-09-15
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 2940-2951
- ISSN
- 1092-4388 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-9102
- PMC
- PMC7890219
- OpenAlex
- W2128063100
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 0.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01ns050256-05, KL2TR000146)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC008567)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01-NS050256)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Voice and Speech Disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
- Keywords
- intrinsic laryngeal muscles, personality, autonomic nervous system, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, vagal outflow, thyroarytenoid muscle, trapezius, tibialis muscle, laryngeal electromyography, vocal hyperfunction
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Autonomic Nervous System, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Laryngeal Muscles, Personality, Speech, Stress, Psychological, Voice
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