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Differences of respiratory kinematics in female and male singers – A comparative study using dynamic magnetic resonance imaging

Breath control is an important factor for singing voice production, but pedagogic descriptions of how a beneficial movement pattern should be performed vary widely and the underlying physiological processes are not understood in detail. Differences in respiratory movements during singing might be re...

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Autores principales: Traser, Louisa, Schwab, Carmen, Burk, Fabian, Özen, Ali Caglar, Bock, Michael, Richter, Bernhard, Echternach, Matthias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9760878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36544443
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.844032
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author Traser, Louisa
Schwab, Carmen
Burk, Fabian
Özen, Ali Caglar
Bock, Michael
Richter, Bernhard
Echternach, Matthias
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Schwab, Carmen
Burk, Fabian
Özen, Ali Caglar
Bock, Michael
Richter, Bernhard
Echternach, Matthias
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description Breath control is an important factor for singing voice production, but pedagogic descriptions of how a beneficial movement pattern should be performed vary widely and the underlying physiological processes are not understood in detail. Differences in respiratory movements during singing might be related to the sex of the singer. To study sex-related differences in respiratory kinematics during phonation, 12 singers (six male and six female) trained in the Western classical singing tradition were imaged with dynamic magnetic resonance imaging. Singers were asked to sustain phonation at five different pitches and loudness conditions, and cross-sectional images of the lung were acquired. In each dynamic image frame the distances between anatomical landmarks were measured to quantify the movements of the respiratory apparatus. No major difference between male and female singers was found for the general respiratory kinematics of the thorax and the diaphragm during sustained phonation. However when compared to sole breathing, male singers significantly increased their thoracic movements for singing. This behavior could not be observed in female singers. The presented data support the hypothesis that professional singers follow sex-specific breathing strategies. This finding may be important in a pedagogical context where the biological sex of singer and student differ and should be further investigated in a larger cohort.
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spelling pubmed-97608782022-12-20 Differences of respiratory kinematics in female and male singers – A comparative study using dynamic magnetic resonance imaging Traser, Louisa Schwab, Carmen Burk, Fabian Özen, Ali Caglar Bock, Michael Richter, Bernhard Echternach, Matthias Front Psychol Psychology Breath control is an important factor for singing voice production, but pedagogic descriptions of how a beneficial movement pattern should be performed vary widely and the underlying physiological processes are not understood in detail. Differences in respiratory movements during singing might be related to the sex of the singer. To study sex-related differences in respiratory kinematics during phonation, 12 singers (six male and six female) trained in the Western classical singing tradition were imaged with dynamic magnetic resonance imaging. Singers were asked to sustain phonation at five different pitches and loudness conditions, and cross-sectional images of the lung were acquired. In each dynamic image frame the distances between anatomical landmarks were measured to quantify the movements of the respiratory apparatus. No major difference between male and female singers was found for the general respiratory kinematics of the thorax and the diaphragm during sustained phonation. However when compared to sole breathing, male singers significantly increased their thoracic movements for singing. This behavior could not be observed in female singers. The presented data support the hypothesis that professional singers follow sex-specific breathing strategies. This finding may be important in a pedagogical context where the biological sex of singer and student differ and should be further investigated in a larger cohort. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9760878/ /pubmed/36544443 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.844032 Text en Copyright © 2022 Traser, Schwab, Burk, Özen, Bock, Richter and Echternach. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Traser, Louisa
Schwab, Carmen
Burk, Fabian
Özen, Ali Caglar
Bock, Michael
Richter, Bernhard
Echternach, Matthias
Differences of respiratory kinematics in female and male singers – A comparative study using dynamic magnetic resonance imaging
title Differences of respiratory kinematics in female and male singers – A comparative study using dynamic magnetic resonance imaging
title_full Differences of respiratory kinematics in female and male singers – A comparative study using dynamic magnetic resonance imaging
title_fullStr Differences of respiratory kinematics in female and male singers – A comparative study using dynamic magnetic resonance imaging
title_full_unstemmed Differences of respiratory kinematics in female and male singers – A comparative study using dynamic magnetic resonance imaging
title_short Differences of respiratory kinematics in female and male singers – A comparative study using dynamic magnetic resonance imaging
title_sort differences of respiratory kinematics in female and male singers – a comparative study using dynamic magnetic resonance imaging
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9760878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36544443
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.844032
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