Nadia Guerouaou

Clinical psychologist, Lille University Hospital.
PhD Student, FEMTO Neuro group.

nadia.guerouaou@chru-lille.fr
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I am a doctoral student in the FEMTO Neuro Group, the Perception and Sounds Design team (STMS lab/CNRS/Ircam Paris) and Plasticity and Subjectivity team (Lille Neuroscience & Cognition Centre lab/INSERM/CHRU Lille). In parallel to my research activity, I have a degree in Neuropsychology and work as a clinical psychologist at the Regional Consultation of Psychotrauma in the Hauts de France, where I attend patients suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD).

My doctoral research work focuses on the voice of PTSD patients. The first objective is to investigate new acoustic biomarkers in the patients’ voice in order to better characterize both the pathology and the healing process associated with imaginative exposure psychotherapy. The second aspect of this doctoral project is the use of the vocal feedback paradigm developed by the NEURO team for the purpose of augmented psychotherapy.

Besides, I am also interested in Neuroethics, a discipline I teach to Psychology and Neuropsychology students (Bachelor and Master) at Lille’s University. The core of these lectures mainly deals with the current and potential uses of new technologies emerging from research in cognitive neurosciences and the impact that misuses, particularly in the context of augmentation, could have on our societies. These rapid technological advances require continuous adaptation from users and experts, and open debates to overcome the “techclash” and bring out the essential questions for an enlightened use of these technologies. This interest is reflected in my PhD work by the study of the acceptability of vocal deepfakes by the society, and in particular of expressive voice transformation technologies as well as the impact of culture on this acceptability (forthcoming study: comparison of the receptivity of vocal deepfakes between the French and Japanese populations).

PhD thesis co-supervised by Pr Guillaume Vaiva and Dr Jean-Julien Aucouturier.