Re: Emotional speech, supraglottal structures and limbic system ("Ferguson, Sarah Hargus" )

Subject: Re: Emotional speech, supraglottal structures and limbic system
From:    "Ferguson, Sarah Hargus"  <safergus(at)KU.EDU>
Date:    Wed, 12 May 2004 08:25:52 -0500

Cheng-gia said:

"This may explain that one feels supraglottal structures 'pressed' while
in anger or danger."

I guess that's where that "lump in the throat" feeling comes from?

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Sarah Hargus Ferguson, Ph.D., CCC-A
Assistant Professor
Department of Speech-Language-Hearing: Sciences and Disorders
University of Kansas
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office: (785)864-1116
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: chen-gia tsai [mailto:tsai.cc(at)lycos.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 1:29 AM
> To: AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA
> Subject: Re: Emotional speech, supraglottal structures and limbic
system
> 
> On May 11, Martin Braun wrote:
> 
> >There may not be a specific sub-cortical innervation of supraglottal
> >structures. The emotional stress effects on the voice may be more
> generally
> >mediated by modulation of the autonomic influence on the motor
systems of
> >breathing and swallowing.
> 
> Dear Martin,
> 
> Thank you very much for this comment. The autonomic influence on the
motor
> systems of swallowing might be relevant to the adduction of the false
> vocal
> folds or aryepiglottic folds, which prevent food from entering the
lung.
> This may explain that one feels supraglottal structures 'pressed'
while in
> anger or danger. From this standpoint, rough voices is a by-product of
the
> 'fight or flight' reaction about swallowing.
> 
> Is there any reference about that emotional-stress-induced adduction
of
> FVFs or AFs could be related to autonomic influence on the motor
systems
> of
> swallowing?
> 
> It is my feeling that rough voices due to FVFs or AFs adduction should
not
> be regarded as a by-product of 'fight or flight' reactions. Such rough
> voice
> qualities are paralinguistic cues in human acoustic communication.
FVFs
> and
> AFs may receive sub-cortical influence - just like that many muscles
in
> the face receive sub-cortical influence - to reveal one's emotional
state.
> Of course, facial expressions are not just side effects of emotions.
> 
> 
> Best,
> Chen-Gia Tsai
> ______________________________________
> Chen-Gia Tsai
> PhD, Humboldt-University of Berlin
> http://www.yogimont.net/jia/
> tsai.cc(at)lycos.com
> 
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