The speaking brain: a tutorial introduction to fMRI experiments in the production of speech, prosody and syntax

Dogil, Grzegorz; Ackermann, Hermann; Grodd, Wolfgang; Haider, Hubert; Kamp, Hermann; Mayer, Jörg; Riecker, Axel; Wildgruber, Dirk

doi:10.1016/s0911-6044(00)00021-x

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“…However, we may now have tools that provide precise quantitative measures of prosody production on a fine temporal scale (i.e., on a per-utterance instead of per-session, or per-individual, basis), which can then be used in combination with EEG, newer fMRI methods (e.g., Dogil, Ackermann, Grodd, Haider, Kamp, Mayer, et al, 2002), and magnetoencephalography to provide an integrated behavioral/neuroimaging account of expressive prosody in ASD that complements the above research on speech perception in ASD.…”

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Computational prosodic markers for autism

Santen

Prud’hommeaux

Black

2010

Autism

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We present results obtained with new instrumental methods for the acoustic analysis of prosody to evaluate prosody production by children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Typical Development (TD). Two tasks elicit focal stress, one in a vocal imitation paradigm, the other in a picture-description paradigm; a third task also uses a vocal imitation paradigm, and requires repeating stress patterns of two-syllable nonsense words. The instrumental methods differentiated significantly between the ASD and TD groups in all but the focal stress imitation task. The methods also showed smaller differences in the two vocal imitation tasks than in the picture-description task, as was predicted. In fact, in the nonsense word stress repetition task, the instrumental methods showed better performance for the ASD group. The methods also revealed that the acoustic features that predict auditory-perceptual judgment are not the same as those that differentiate between groups. Specifically, a key difference between the groups appears to be a difference in the balance between the various prosodic cues, such as pitch, amplitude, and duration, and not necessarily a difference in the strength or clarity with which prosodic contrasts are expressed

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Computational prosodic markers for autism

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Prud’hommeaux

Black

2010

Autism

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“…There is also no evidence that TOTs involve deficits at the articulatory level because TOT targets can be neither spoken nor written (e.g., Rastle & Burke, 1996;Meyer & Bock, 1992). The involvement of both production modalities differentiates TOTs from speech production failures caused by deficits in programming of speech motor movements as in speech apraxia where writing of words is preserved (Dogil et al, 2002). Unlike people in a TOT state, people with apraxia of speech know the sounds of the word, but they are unable to compute the program to articulate them (Hillis et al, 2004).…”

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On the Tip-of-the-Tongue: Neural Correlates of Increased Word-finding Failures in Normal Aging

Shafto

Burke

Stamatakis

et al. 2007

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

151

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Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) experiences are frustrating word-finding failures where people are temporarily unable to produce a word they are certain they know. TOT frequency increases with normal aging during adulthood, and behavioral evidence suggests that the underlying deficit is in retrieving the complete phonology of the target word during production. The present study investigated the neural correlates of this phonological retrieval deficit. We obtained 3-D T1-weighted structural magnetic resonance images (MRI) for healthy participants between 19 and 88 years old and used voxel-based morphometry to measure gray matter density throughout the brain. In a separate session, participants named celebrities cued by pictures and descriptions, indicating when they had a TOT, and also completed Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM), a task that does not involve phonological production. The number of TOTs increased with age and also with gray matter atrophy in the left insula, an area implicated in phonological production. The relation between TOTs and left insula atrophy cannot be attributed to the correlation of each variable with age because TOTs were related to insula atrophy even with age effects removed. Moreover, errors on the RPM increased with age, but performance did not correlate with gray matter density in the insula. These results provide, for the first time, an association between a region in the neural language system and the rise in agerelated word-finding failures and suggest that age-related atrophy in neural regions important for phonological production may contribute to age-related word production failures.

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“…This function, of course, has obvious relevance to language abilities. For example, researchers have implicated the cerebellum in the planning and execution of the articulatory movements involved in speaking (Dogil et al, 2002). Lesions of the cerebellum result in "ataxic dysarthria," a syndrome characterized by slowed speaking rate, distorted consonant and vowel productions, and impaired prosodic modulation of sentence utterances.…”

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Putting Language Back in the Body: Speech and Gesture on Three Time Frames

Kelly¹,

Iverson²,

Terranova³

et al. 2002

Developmental Neuropsychology

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This article investigates the role that nonverbal actions play in language processing over 3 different time frames. First, we speculate that nonverbal actions played a role in how formal language systems emerged from our primate ancestors over evolutionary time. Next, we hypothesize that if nonverbal behaviors played a foundational role in the emergence of language over evolution, these actions should influence how children learn language in the present. Finally, we argue that nonverbal actions continue to play a role for adults in the moment-to-moment processing of language. Throughout, we take an embodied view of language and argue that the neural, cognitive, and social components of language processing are firmly grounded in bodily action.Human language is special because it is at the pinnacle of the mind's capabilities and is most notably what separates our minds from the minds of other thinking animals. Language is so special, in fact, that many people have argued that there is a designated language device built into the human brain at birth. These views, madeRequests for reprints should be sent to

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The speaking brain: a tutorial introduction to fMRI experiments in the production of speech, prosody and syntax

Cited by 92 publications

References 46 publications

Computational prosodic markers for autism

Computational prosodic markers for autism

On the Tip-of-the-Tongue: Neural Correlates of Increased Word-finding Failures in Normal Aging

Putting Language Back in the Body: Speech and Gesture on Three Time Frames

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