Maude Desjardins

Regular member
Institutions: Université Laval, Department of rehabilitation
Research interests: Voice production; Voice disorders; Respiration; Aging voice; Anxiety
Website

Maude Desjardins is an Assistant Professor in the department of rehabilitation at Université Laval, and a researcher at the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale (Cirris). Her research focuses on system interactions in voice production, specifically on the interactions between the upper and lower airways and their biomechanical properties, as well as on sensorimotor integration. In the long term, her research program aims to further our understanding of the role that these interactions play in shaping healthy and disordered voice production, and of the ways in which they should be addressed to improve voice therapy outcomes. In order to achieve these goals, her lab approaches respiratory-laryngeal interactions from various angles, using data from human subject experiments as well as from existing computational models of phonation, and combining methods rooted in the fields of voice, psycholinguistics, and respiratory psychophysiology.