Meghan (left) and Rezvaneh (right) at the SROP symposium
Rezvaneh and Meghan at the SROP reception along with SROP faculty and staff
Students in the Voice and Resonance Lab have had an exciting year of research examining voice, resonance, and speech production.
Rezvaneh Naebian, a PhD student in Speech and Hearing Science, recently received a Meritorious Poster Recognition for the 2026 ASHA Convention. Her work, also recently published in the Journal of Voice, examined supraglottic activity in healthy classically trained singers through a scoping review of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and endoscopic studies (Supraglottic Activity in Healthy Classically Trained Singers: A Scoping Review of MRI and Endoscopic Evidence - Journal of Voice). The review showed that supraglottic adjustments commonly associated with vocal hyperfunction are also frequently observed in healthy trained classical singers and vary with factors such as pitch, loudness, register, vowel, and voice type. These findings highlight the importance of considering singing context when distinguishing healthy, adaptive vocal behaviors from clinically hyperfunctional patterns.
Meghan Rogozinski, an undergraduate student, participated in Ohio State’s Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) this summer, where she was mentored by Dr. Bae and PhD student Rezvaneh Naebian, and is continuing the work as her undergraduate thesis. Her project examines nasalization patterns in classically trained and untrained male singers. Because classical vocal training involves extensive practice in coordinating vocal tract and resonance adjustments, the study asks whether this long-term training is associated with systematic differences in nasalization during speech and singing. Meghan’s work explores how vocal training may shape the coordination of oral and nasal resonance.