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Yıldırım C, Düzenli-Öztürk S, Parlak MM. Assessing the perception of emotional prosody in healthy ageing. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS 2024. [PMID: 39137279 DOI: 10.1111/1460-6984.13097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2024] [Indexed: 08/15/2024]
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BACKGROUND Emotional prosody is the reflection of emotion types such as happiness, sadness, fear and anger in the speaker's tone of voice. Accurately perceiving, interpreting and expressing emotional prosody is an inseparable part of successful communication and social interaction. There are few studies on emotional prosody, which is crucial for communication, and the results of these studies have inconsistent information regarding age and gender. AIMS The primary aim of this study is to assess the perception of emotional prosody in healthy ageing. The other aim is to examine the effects of variables such as age, gender, language and neurocognitive capacity on the prediction of emotional prosody recognition skills. METHODS AND PROCEDURES Sixty-nine participants between the ages of 18-75 were included in the study. Participants were grouped as the young group aged 18-35 (n = 26), the middle-aged group aged 36-55 (n = 24) and the elderly group aged 56-75 (n = 19). Perceptual emotional prosody test, motor response time test, and neuropsychological test batteries were administered to the participants. Participants were asked to recognise the emotion in the sentences played on the computer. Natural (neutral, containing neither positive nor negative emotion), happy, angry, surprised and panic emotions were evaluated with sentences composed of pseudoword stimuli. RESULTS AND OUTCOMES It was observed that the elderly group performed worse in recognising angry, panic, natural and happy emotions and in total recognition, which gives the correct recognition performance in recognition of all emotions. There was no age-related difference in recognition of the emotion of surprise. The women were more successful in recognising angry, panic, happy and total emotions compared to men. Age and Motor Reaction Time Test scores were found to be significant predictors in the emotional response time regression model. Age, language, attention and gender variables were found to have a significant effect on the regression model created for the success of total recognition of emotions (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS This was a novel study in which emotional prosody was assessed in the elderly by eliminating lexical-semantic cues related to emotional prosody and associating emotional prosody results with neuropsychiatric tests. All our findings revealed the importance of age for the perception of emotional prosody. In addition, the effects of cognitive functions such as attention, which decline with age, were found to be important. Therefore, it should not be forgotten that many factors contribute to the success of recognising emotional prosody correctly. In this context, clinicians should consider variables such as cognitive health and education when assessing the perception of emotional prosody in elderly individuals. WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS What is already known on the subject Most of the studies compare young and old groups, and these studies evaluate the perception of emotional prosody by using sentences formed by observing the speech sounds, syllables, words and grammar rules in the vocabulary of the language. It has been reported that the perception of emotional prosody is lower, mostly in the elderly group, but there is inconsistent information in terms of age and gender. What this paper adds to existing knowledge Perceptual Prosody Recognition was evaluated with an experimental design in which sentence structures consisting of lexemes were used as stimuli and neurocognitive tests were included, taking into account the phonological and syntactic rules of language. This study was a novel study in diagnosing emotional prosody in terms of comparing different age groups and determining the factors affecting multidimensional emotional prosody, including neuropsychiatric features. What are the clinical implications of this work? All our findings revealed the importance of age for the perception of emotional prosody. In addition, it was determined that the effects of cognitive functions such as attention were important with age.
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- Cansu Yıldırım
- Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, İzmir Bakırçay University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, İzmir Bakırçay University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey
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Zipse L, Gallée J, Shattuck-Hufnagel S. A targeted review of prosodic production in agrammatic aphasia. Neuropsychol Rehabil 2024:1-41. [PMID: 38848458 DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2024.2362243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2024] [Indexed: 06/09/2024]
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It is unclear whether individuals with agrammatic aphasia have particularly disrupted prosody, or in fact have relatively preserved prosody they can use in a compensatory way. A targeted literature review was undertaken to examine the evidence regarding the capacity of speakers with agrammatic aphasia to produce prosody. The aim was to answer the question, how much prosody can a speaker "do" with limited syntax? The literature was systematically searched for articles examining the production of grammatical prosody in people with agrammatism, and yielded 16 studies that were ultimately included in this review. Participant inclusion criteria, spoken language tasks, and analysis procedures vary widely across studies. The evidence indicates that timing aspects of prosody are disrupted in people with agrammatic aphasia, while the use of pitch and amplitude cues is more likely to be preserved in this population. Some, but not all, of these timing differences may be attributable to motor speech programming deficits (AOS) rather than aphasia, as these conditions frequently co-occur. Many of the included studies do not address AOS and its possible role in any observed effects. Finally, the available evidence indicates that even speakers with severe aphasia show a degree of preserved prosody in functional communication.
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- Lauryn Zipse
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Dor YI, Algom D, Shakuf V, Ben-David BM. Age-related differences in processing of emotions in speech disappear with babble noise in the background. Cogn Emot 2024:1-10. [PMID: 38764186 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2351960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/26/2024] [Indexed: 05/21/2024]
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Older adults process emotional speech differently than young adults, relying less on prosody (tone) relative to semantics (words). This study aimed to elucidate the mechanisms underlying these age-related differences via an emotional speech-in-noise test. A sample of 51 young and 47 older adults rated spoken sentences with emotional content on both prosody and semantics, presented on the background of wideband speech-spectrum noise (sensory interference) or on the background of multi-talker babble (sensory/cognitive interference). The presence of wideband noise eliminated age-related differences in semantics but not in prosody when processing emotional speech. Conversely, the presence of babble resulted in the elimination of age-related differences across all measures. The results suggest that both sensory and cognitive-linguistic factors contribute to age-related changes in emotional speech processing. Because real world conditions typically involve noisy background, our results highlight the importance of testing under such conditions.
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- Yehuda I Dor
- School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University (IDC), Herzliya, Israel
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- School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Department of Communication Disorders, Achva Academic College, Arugot, Israel
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- Department of Communication Disorders, Achva Academic College, Arugot, Israel
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- Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University (IDC), Herzliya, Israel
- KITE, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Networks (UHN), Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Gatto RG, Martin PR, Utianski RL, Duffy JR, Clark HM, Botha H, Machulda MM, Josephs KA, Whitwell JL. Diffusion tensor imaging-based multi-fiber tracking reconstructions can regionally differentiate phonetic versus prosodic subtypes of progressive apraxia of speech. Cortex 2024; 171:272-286. [PMID: 38061209 PMCID: PMC10922200 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Revised: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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Two subtypes of progressive apraxia of speech (PAOS) have been recognized: phonetic PAOS (PAOS_ph) where speech output is dominated by distorted sound substitutions and prosodic PAOS (PAOS_pr) which is dominated by segmented speech. We investigate whether these PAOS subtypes have different white matter microstructural abnormalities measured by diffusion tensor tractography. Thirty-three patients with PAOS (21 PAOS_ph and 12 PAOS_pr) and 19 healthy controls were recruited by the Neurodegenerative Research Group (NRG) and underwent diffusion MRI. Using a whole-brain tractography approach, fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) were extracted for cortico-cortical, cortico-subcortical, cortical-projection, and cerebello-cortical white matter tracts. A hierarchical linear model was applied to assess tract-level FA and MD across groups. Both PAOS_ph and PAOS_pr showed degeneration of cortico-cortical, cortico-subcortical, cortical-projection, and cerebello-cortical white matter tracts compared to controls. However, degeneration of the body of corpus callosum, superior thalamic radiation, and superior cerebellar peduncle was greater in PAOS_pr compared to PAOS_ph, and degeneration of the inferior segment of the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) was greater in PAOS_ph compared to PAOS_pr. Worse parkinsonism correlated with greater degeneration of cortico-cortical and cortico-subcortical tracts in PAOS_ph. Apraxia of speech articulatory error score correlated with degeneration of the superior cerebellar peduncle tracts in PAOS_pr. Phonetic and prosodic PAOS involve the compromise of a similar network of tracts, although there are connectivity differences between types. Whereas clinical parameters are the current gold standard to distinguish PAOS subtypes, our results allege the use of DTI-based tractography as a supplementary method to investigate such variants.
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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Coulombe V, Joyal M, Martel-Sauvageau V, Monetta L. Affective prosody disorders in adults with neurological conditions: A scoping review. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS 2023; 58:1939-1954. [PMID: 37212522 DOI: 10.1111/1460-6984.12909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Individuals with affective-prosodic deficits have difficulty understanding or expressing emotions and attitudes through prosody. Affective prosody disorders can occur in multiple neurological conditions, but the limited knowledge about the clinical groups prone to deficits complicates their identification in clinical settings. Additionally, the nature of the disturbance underlying affective prosody disorder observed in different neurological conditions remains poorly understood. AIMS To bridge these knowledge gaps and provide relevant information to speech-language pathologists for the management of affective prosody disorders, this study provides an overview of research findings on affective-prosodic deficits in adults with neurological conditions by answering two questions: (1) Which clinical groups present with acquired affective prosodic impairments following brain damage? (2) Which aspects of affective prosody comprehension and production are negatively affected in these neurological conditions? METHODS & PROCEDURES We conducted a scoping review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines. A literature search was undertaken in five electronic databases (MEDLINE, PsycINFO, EMBASE, CINAHL and Linguistics, and Language Behavior Abstracts) to identify primary studies reporting affective prosody disorders in adults with neurological impairments. We extracted data on clinical groups and characterised their deficits based on the assessment task used. OUTCOMES & RESULTS The review of 98 studies identified affective-prosodic deficits in 17 neurological conditions. The task paradigms typically used in affective prosody research (discrimination, recognition, cross-modal integration, production on request, imitation and spontaneous production) do not target the processes underlying affective prosody comprehension and production. Therefore, based on the current state of knowledge, it is not possible to establish the level of processing at which impairment occurs in clinical groups. Nevertheless, deficits in the comprehension of affective prosody are observed in 14 clinical groups (mainly recognition deficits) and deficits in the production of affective prosody (either on request or spontaneously) in 10 clinical groups. Neurological conditions and types of deficits that have not been investigated in many studies are highlighted. CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS The aim of this scoping review was to provide an overview on acquired affective prosody disorders and to identify gaps in knowledge that warrant further investigation. Deficits in the comprehension or production of affective prosody are common to numerous clinical groups with various neurological conditions. However, the underlying cause of affective prosody disorders across them is still unknown. Future studies should implement standardised assessment methods with specific tasks based on a cognitive model to identify the underlying deficits of affective prosody disorders. WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS What is already known on the subject What is already known on the subjectAffective prosody is used to share emotions and attitudes through speech and plays a fundamental role in communication and social interactions. Affective prosody disorders can occur in various neurological conditions, but the limited knowledge about the clinical groups prone to affective-prosodic deficits and about the characteristics of different phenotypes of affective prosody disorders complicates their identification in clinical settings. Distinct abilities underlying the comprehension and production of affective prosody can be selectively impaired by brain damage, but the nature of the disturbance underlying affective prosody disorders in different neurological conditions remains unclear. What this study adds Affective-prosodic deficits are reported in 17 neurological conditions, despite being recognised as a core feature of the clinical profile in only a few of them. The assessment tasks typically used in affective prosody research do not provide accurate information about the specific neurocognitive processes impaired in the comprehension or production of affective prosody. Future studies should implement assessment methods based on a cognitive approach to identify underlying deficits. The assessment of cognitive/executive dysfunctions, motor speech impairment and aphasia might be important for distinguishing primary affective prosodic dysfunctions from those secondarily impacting affective prosody. What are the potential clinical implications of this study? Raising awareness about the possible presence of affective-prosodic disorders in numerous clinical groups will facilitate their recognition by speech-language pathologists and, consequently, their management in clinical settings. A comprehensive assessment covering multiple affective-prosodic skills could highlight specific aspects of affective prosody that warrant clinical intervention.
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- Valérie Coulombe
- Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (CIRRIS), Québec, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (CIRRIS), Québec, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (CIRRIS), Québec, Canada
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Geraudie A, Pressman PS, Pariente J, Millanski C, Palser ER, Ratnasiri BM, Battistella G, Mandelli ML, Miller ZA, Miller BL, Sturm V, Rankin KP, Gorno-Tempini ML, Montembeault M. Expressive Prosody in Patients With Focal Anterior Temporal Neurodegeneration. Neurology 2023; 101:e825-e835. [PMID: 37400244 PMCID: PMC10449437 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000207516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 07/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Progressive focal anterior temporal lobe (ATL) neurodegeneration has been historically called semantic dementia. More recently, semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) and semantic behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (sbvFTD) have been linked with predominant left and right ATL neurodegeneration, respectively. Nonetheless, clinical tools for an accurate diagnosis of sbvFTD are still lacking. Expressive prosody refers to the modulation of pitch, loudness, tempo, and quality of voice used to convey emotional and linguistic information and has been linked to bilateral but right-predominant frontotemporal functioning. Changes in expressive prosody can be detected with semiautomated methods and could represent a useful diagnostic marker of socioemotional functioning in sbvFTD. METHODS Participants underwent a comprehensive neuropsychological and language evaluation and a 3T MRI at the University of California San Francisco. Each participant provided a verbal description of the picnic scene from the Western Aphasia Battery. The fundamental frequency (f0) range, an acoustic measure of pitch variability, was extracted for each participant. We compared the f0 range between groups and investigated associations with an informant-rated measure of empathy, a facial emotion labeling task, and gray matter (GM) volumes using voxel-based morphometry. RESULTS Twenty-eight patients with svPPA, 18 with sbvFTD, and 18 healthy controls (HCs) were included. f0 range was significantly different across groups: patients with sbvFTD showed reduced f0 range in comparison with both patients with svPPA (mean difference of -1.4 ± 2.4 semitones; 95% CI -2.4 to -0.4]; p < 0.005) and HCs (mean difference of -1.9 ± 3.0 semitones; 95% CI -3.0 to -0.7]; p < 0.001). A higher f0 range was correlated with a greater informant-rated empathy (r = 0.355; p ≤ 0.05), but not facial emotion labeling. Finally, the lower f0 range was correlated with lower GM volume in the right superior temporal gyrus, encompassing anterior and posterior portions (p < 0.05 FWE cluster corrected). DISCUSSION Expressive prosody may be a useful clinical marker of sbvFTD. Reduced empathy is a core symptom in sbvFTD; the present results extend this to prosody, a core component of social interaction, at the intersection of speech and emotion. They also inform the long-standing debate on the lateralization of expressive prosody in the brain, highlighting the critical role of the right superior temporal lobe.
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- Amandine Geraudie
- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- From the Memory and Aging Center (A.G., E.R.P., B.M.R., G.B., M.L.M., Z.A.M., B.L.M., V.S., K.P.R., M.L.G.-T., M.M.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Neurology Department (A.G., J.P.), Toulouse University Hospital; Institut du Cerveau (ICM) (A.G.), INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; Department of Neurology (P.S.P.), University of Colorado; Department of Speech (C.M.), Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; Dyslexia Center (E.R.P., M.L.M., Z.A.M., V.S., M.L.G.-T.), Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (G.B.), Massachusets Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Douglas Research Centre (M.M.); and Department of Psychiatry (M.M.), McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
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Baglione H, Coulombe V, Martel-Sauvageau V, Monetta L. The impacts of aging on the comprehension of affective prosody: A systematic review. APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY. ADULT 2023:1-16. [PMID: 37603689 DOI: 10.1080/23279095.2023.2245940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/23/2023]
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Recent clinical reports have suggested a possible decline in the ability to understand emotions in speech (affective prosody comprehension) with aging. The present study aims to further examine the differences in performance between older and younger adults in terms of affective prosody comprehension. Following a recent cognitive model dividing affective prosody comprehension into perceptual and lexico-semantic components, a cognitive approach targeting these components was adopted. The influence of emotions' valence and category on aging performance was also investigated. A systematic review of the literature was carried out using six databases. Twenty-one articles, presenting 25 experiments, were included. All experiments analyzed affective prosody comprehension performance of older versus younger adults. The results confirmed that older adults' performance in identifying emotions in speech was reduced compared to younger adults. The results also brought out the fact that affective prosody comprehension abilities could be modulated by the emotion category but not by the emotional valence. Various theories account for this difference in performance, namely auditory perception, brain aging, and socioemotional selectivity theory suggesting that older people tend to neglect negative emotions. However, the explanation of the underlying deficits of the affective prosody decline is still limited.
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- Héloïse Baglione
- Département de réadaptation, Université Laval, Québec City, Quebec, Canada
- Département de readaptation, Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale (CIRRIS), Québec City, Quebec, Canada
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- Département de réadaptation, Université Laval, Québec City, Quebec, Canada
- Département de readaptation, Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale (CIRRIS), Québec City, Quebec, Canada
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- Département de réadaptation, Université Laval, Québec City, Quebec, Canada
- Département de readaptation, Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale (CIRRIS), Québec City, Quebec, Canada
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- Département de réadaptation, Université Laval, Québec City, Quebec, Canada
- Département de readaptation, Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale (CIRRIS), Québec City, Quebec, Canada
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Oh C, Morris R, Wang X, Raskin MS. Analysis of emotional prosody as a tool for differential diagnosis of cognitive impairments: a pilot research. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1129406. [PMID: 37425151 PMCID: PMC10327638 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1129406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/11/2023] Open
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Introduction This pilot research was designed to investigate if prosodic features from running spontaneous speech could differentiate dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT), vascular dementia (VaD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and healthy cognition. The study included acoustic measurements of prosodic features (Study 1) and listeners' perception of emotional prosody differences (Study 2). Methods For Study 1, prerecorded speech samples describing the Cookie Theft picture from 10 individuals with DAT, 5 with VaD, 9 with MCI, and 10 neurologically healthy controls (NHC) were obtained from the DementiaBank. The descriptive narratives by each participant were separated into utterances. These utterances were measured on 22 acoustic features via the Praat software and analyzed statistically using the principal component analysis (PCA), regression, and Mahalanobis distance measures. Results The analyses on acoustic data revealed a set of five factors and four salient features (i.e., pitch, amplitude, rate, and syllable) that discriminate the four groups. For Study 2, a group of 28 listeners served as judges of emotions expressed by the speakers. After a set of training and practice sessions, they were instructed to indicate the emotions they heard. Regression measures were used to analyze the perceptual data. The perceptual data indicated that the factor underlying pitch measures had the greatest strength for the listeners to separate the groups. Discussion The present pilot work showed that using acoustic measures of prosodic features may be a functional method for differentiating among DAT, VaD, MCI, and NHC. Future studies with data collected under a controlled environment using better stimuli are warranted.
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- Chorong Oh
- School of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH, United States
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- School of Communication Science and Disorders, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
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- School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
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- School of Communication Science and Disorders, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
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Spinosa V, Vitulli A, Logroscino G, Brattico E. A Review on Music Interventions for Frontotemporal Aphasia and a Proposal for Alternative Treatments. Biomedicines 2022; 11:biomedicines11010084. [PMID: 36672592 PMCID: PMC9855720 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11010084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2022] [Revised: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a rare neurodegenerative disease, characterized by behavioral and language impairments. Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is the linguistic variant of this heterogeneous disorder. To date, there is a lack of consensus about which interventions are effective in these patients. However, several studies show that music-based interventions are beneficial in neurological diseases. This study aims, primarily, to establish the state of the art of music-based interventions designed for PPA due to FTD and, secondarily, to inform the planning of PPA-dedicated future interventions for Italian neurological institutions. The first aim is fulfilled by a review which critically screens the neurological studies examining the effects of music- and/or rhythm-based interventions, especially, on language rehabilitation in aphasic FTD. We found that only two papers fulfilled our criteria and concerned specifically aphasic patients due to FTD. Of those, one paper reported a study conducted in an Italian institution. Most of the reviewed studies focused, instead, on aphasia in post-stroke patients. The results of our review invite further studies to investigate the role of music as a valuable support in the therapy for neurodegenerative patients with language problems and in particular to PPA due to FTD. Moreover, based on this initial work, we can delineate new music-based interventions dedicated to PPA for Italian institutions.
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- Vittoria Spinosa
- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Aging Brain, Department of Clinical Research in Neurology, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico, 73039 Tricase, Italy
- Department of Basic Medicine, Neuroscience, and Sense Organs, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, 70121 Bari, Italy
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Aging Brain, Department of Clinical Research in Neurology, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico, 73039 Tricase, Italy
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Aging Brain, Department of Clinical Research in Neurology, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico, 73039 Tricase, Italy
- Department of Basic Medicine, Neuroscience, and Sense Organs, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, 70121 Bari, Italy
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, 70121 Bari, Italy
- Correspondence:
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OBJECTIVES The aim of this systematic review was to identify the presence and nature of relationships between specific forms of aprosodia (i.e., expressive and receptive emotional and linguistic prosodic deficits) and other cognitive-communication deficits and disorders in individuals with right hemisphere damage (RHD) due to stroke. METHODS One hundred and ninety articles from 1970 to February 2020 investigating receptive and expressive prosody in patients with relatively focal right hemisphere brain damage were identified via database searches. RESULTS Fourteen articles were identified that met inclusion criteria, passed quality reviews, and included sufficient information about prosody and potential co-occurring deficits. Twelve articles investigated receptive emotional aprosodia, and two articles investigated receptive linguistic aprosodia. Across the included studies, receptive emotional prosody was not systematically associated with hemispatial neglect, but did co-occur with deficits in emotional facial recognition, interpersonal interactions, or emotional semantics. Receptive linguistic processing was reported to co-occur with amusia and hemispatial neglect. No studies were found that investigated the co-occurrence of expressive emotional or linguistic prosodic deficits with other cognitive-communication impairments. CONCLUSIONS This systematic review revealed significant gaps in the research literature regarding the co-occurrence of common right hemisphere disorders with prosodic deficits. More rigorous empirical inquiry is required to identify specific patient profiles based on clusters of deficits associated with right hemisphere stroke. Future research may determine whether the co-occurrences identified are due to shared cognitive-linguistic processes, and may inform the development of evidence-based assessment and treatment recommendations for individuals with cognitive-communication deficits subsequent to RHD.
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Stockbridge MD, Sheppard SM, Keator LM, Murray LL, Lehman Blake M. Aprosodia Subsequent to Right Hemisphere Brain Damage: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2022; 28:709-735. [PMID: 34607619 DOI: 10.1017/s1355617721000825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To identify which aspects of prosody are negatively affected subsequent to right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) and to evaluate the methodological quality of the constituent studies. METHOD Twenty-one electronic databases were searched to identify articles from 1970 to February 2020 by entering keywords. Eligibility criteria for articles included a focus on adults with acquired RHD, prosody as the primary research topic, and publication in a peer-reviewed journal. A quality appraisal was conducted using a rubric adapted from Downs and Black (1998). RESULTS Of the 113 articles appraised as eligible and appropriate for inclusion, 71 articles were selected to undergo data extraction for both meta-analyses of population effect size estimates and qualitative synthesis. Across all domains of prosody, the effect estimate was g = 2.51 [95% CI (1.94, 3.09), t = 8.66, p < 0.0001], based on 129 contrasts between RHD and non-brain-damaged healthy controls (NBD), indicating a significant random effects model. This effect size was driven by findings in emotional prosody, g = 2.48 [95% CI (1.76, 3.20), t = 6.88, p < 0.0001]. Overall, studies of higher quality (rpb = 0.18, p < 0.001) and higher sample size/contrast ratio (rpb = 0.25, p < 0.001) were more likely to report significant differences between RHD and NBD participants. CONCLUSIONS The results confirm consistent evidence for emotional prosody deficits in the RHD population. Inconsistent evidence was observed across linguistic prosody domains and pervasive methodological issues were identified across studies, regardless of their prosody focus. These findings highlight the need for more rigorous and sufficiently high-powered designs to examine prosody subsequent to RHD, particularly within the linguistic prosody domain.
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- Melissa D Stockbridge
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Chapman University, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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Oh C, Morris RJ, Wang X. A Systematic Review of Expressive and Receptive Prosody in People With Dementia. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2021; 64:3803-3825. [PMID: 34529922 DOI: 10.1044/2021_jslhr-21-00013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Purpose This review was designed to provide a systematic overview of prosody in people with a primary diagnosis of dementia (PwD) and evaluate the potential use of prosodic features for diagnosis of dementia. Method A systematic search of five databases was conducted using Medical Subject Headings and keywords. Studies included in the review were evaluated for their methodological quality using the modified Joanna Briggs Institute checklist. Results A total of 14 articles were identified as being relevant for this review. Among the 14 articles, the methodological quality ranged, with eight rated as weak, four rated as moderate, and two rated as strong. Ten of the 14 articles had people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) as participants, and the remaining four had people with frontotemporal dementia as participants. Four articles focused on receptive prosody, another six focused on expressive prosody, and the remaining four articles were investigations into both. The 14 articles presented inconsistent findings, and various tasks were used to measure prosodic features in PwD in the articles. Prosody was studied as a diagnostic tool for dementia in four of the articles, all of which were based on expressive prosody in individuals with AD. Among the four articles, three proposed the use of automatic speech analysis for diagnosis of AD. Conclusions This review demonstrates that prosody in PwD is an underinvestigated area. In particular, it was concerning that most articles were of weak methodological quality. Nevertheless, it was found that prosody may be a potential diagnostic tool for assessing dementia. More studies that replicate the existing studies and those with stronger methodology are needed to confirm that receptive and/or expressive prosody can be used for dementia diagnosis.
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- Chorong Oh
- School of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences, Ohio University, Athens
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- School of Communication Science & Disorders, Florida State University, Tallahassee
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- School of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences, Ohio University, Athens
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Durfee AZ, Sheppard SM, Blake ML, Hillis AE. Lesion loci of impaired affective prosody: A systematic review of evidence from stroke. Brain Cogn 2021; 152:105759. [PMID: 34118500 PMCID: PMC8324538 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2020] [Revised: 05/06/2021] [Accepted: 05/24/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Affective prosody, or the changes in rate, rhythm, pitch, and loudness that convey emotion, has long been implicated as a function of the right hemisphere (RH), yet there is a dearth of literature identifying the specific neural regions associated with its processing. The current systematic review aimed to evaluate the evidence on affective prosody localization in the RH. One hundred and ninety articles from 1970 to February 2020 investigating affective prosody comprehension and production in patients with focal brain damage were identified via database searches. Eleven articles met inclusion criteria, passed quality reviews, and were analyzed for affective prosody localization. Acute, subacute, and chronic lesions demonstrated similar profile characteristics. Localized right antero-superior (i.e., dorsal stream) regions contributed to affective prosody production impairments, whereas damage to more postero-lateral (i.e., ventral stream) regions resulted in affective prosody comprehension deficits. This review provides support that distinct RH regions are vital for affective prosody comprehension and production, aligning with literature reporting RH activation for affective prosody processing in healthy adults as well. The impact of study design on resulting interpretations is discussed.
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- Alexandra Zezinka Durfee
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, United States.
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, United States; Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Chapman University Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Irvine, CA 92618, United States
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Houston College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Houston, TX 77204, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, United States; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, United States; Department of Cognitive Science, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
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Lin RZ, Marsh EB. Abnormal singing can identify patients with right hemisphere cortical strokes at risk for impaired prosody. Medicine (Baltimore) 2021; 100:e26280. [PMID: 34115027 PMCID: PMC8202571 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000026280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Despite lacking aphasia seen with left hemisphere (LH) infarcts involving the middle cerebral artery territory, right hemisphere (RH) strokes can result in significant difficulties in affective prosody. These impairments may be more difficult to identify but lead to significant communication problems.We determine if evaluation of singing can accurately identify stroke patients with cortical RH infarcts at risk for prosodic impairment who may benefit from rehabilitation.A prospective cohort of 36 patients evaluated with acute ischemic stroke was recruited. Participants underwent an experimental battery evaluating their singing, prosody comprehension, and prosody production. Singing samples were rated by 2 independent reviewers as subjectively "normal" or "abnormal," and analyzed for properties of the fundamental frequency. Relationships between infarct location, singing, and prosody performance were evaluated using t tests and chi-squared analysis.Eighty percent of participants with LH cortical strokes were unable to successfully complete any of the tasks due to severe aphasia. For the remainder, singing ratings corresponded to stroke location for 68% of patients. RH cortical strokes demonstrated a lower mean fundamental frequency while singing than those with subcortical infarcts (176.8 vs 130.4, P = 0.02). They also made more errors on tasks of prosody comprehension (28.6 vs 16.0, P < 0.001) and production (40.4 vs 18.4, P < 0.001).Patients with RH cortical infarcts are more likely to exhibit impaired prosody comprehension and production and demonstrate the poor variation of tone when singing compared to patients with subcortical infarcts. A simple singing screen is able to successfully identify patients with cortical lesions and potential prosodic deficits.
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- Rebecca Z. Lin
- Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Durfee AZ, Sheppard SM, Meier EL, Bunker L, Cui E, Crainiceanu C, Hillis AE. Explicit Training to Improve Affective Prosody Recognition in Adults with Acute Right Hemisphere Stroke. Brain Sci 2021; 11:brainsci11050667. [PMID: 34065453 PMCID: PMC8161405 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11050667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Revised: 05/15/2021] [Accepted: 05/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Difficulty recognizing affective prosody (receptive aprosodia) can occur following right hemisphere damage (RHD). Not all individuals spontaneously recover their ability to recognize affective prosody, warranting behavioral intervention. However, there is a dearth of evidence-based receptive aprosodia treatment research in this clinical population. The purpose of the current study was to investigate an explicit training protocol targeting affective prosody recognition in adults with RHD and receptive aprosodia. Eighteen adults with receptive aprosodia due to acute RHD completed affective prosody recognition before and after a short training session that targeted proposed underlying perceptual and conceptual processes. Behavioral impairment and lesion characteristics were investigated as possible influences on training effectiveness. Affective prosody recognition improved following training, and recognition accuracy was higher for pseudo- vs. real-word sentences. Perceptual deficits were associated with the most posterior infarcts, conceptual deficits were associated with frontal infarcts, and a combination of perceptual-conceptual deficits were related to temporoparietal and subcortical infarcts. Several right hemisphere ventral stream regions and pathways along with frontal and parietal hypoperfusion predicted training effectiveness. Explicit acoustic-prosodic-emotion training improves affective prosody recognition, but it may not be appropriate for everyone. Factors such as linguistic context and lesion location should be considered when planning prosody training.
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- Alexandra Zezinka Durfee
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; (A.Z.D.); (E.L.M.); (L.B.)
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Chapman University, Irvine, CA 92618, USA;
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; (A.Z.D.); (E.L.M.); (L.B.)
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northeastern University, Boston, MD 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; (A.Z.D.); (E.L.M.); (L.B.)
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; (E.C.); (C.C.)
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; (E.C.); (C.C.)
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; (A.Z.D.); (E.L.M.); (L.B.)
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
- Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Correspondence:
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Sheppard SM, Meier EL, Zezinka Durfee A, Walker A, Shea J, Hillis AE. Characterizing subtypes and neural correlates of receptive aprosodia in acute right hemisphere stroke. Cortex 2021; 141:36-54. [PMID: 34029857 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2020] [Revised: 03/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Speakers naturally produce prosodic variations depending on their emotional state. Receptive prosody has several processing stages. We aimed to conduct lesion-symptom mapping to determine whether damage (core infarct or hypoperfusion) to specific brain areas was associated with receptive aprosodia or with impairment at different processing stages in individuals with acute right hemisphere stroke. We also aimed to determine whether different subtypes of receptive aprosodia exist that are characterized by distinctive behavioral performance patterns. METHODS Twenty patients with receptive aprosodia following right hemisphere ischemic stroke were enrolled within five days of stroke; clinical imaging was acquired. Participants completed tests of receptive emotional prosody, and tests of each stage of prosodic processing (Stage 1: acoustic analysis; Stage 2: analyzing abstract representations of acoustic characteristics that convey emotion; Stage 3: semantic processing). Emotional facial recognition was also assessed. LASSO regression was used to identify predictors of performance on each behavioral task. Predictors entered into each model included 14 right hemisphere regions, hypoperfusion in four vascular territories as measured using FLAIR hyperintense vessel ratings, lesion volume, age, and education. A k-medoid cluster analysis was used to identify different subtypes of receptive aprosodia based on performance on the behavioral tasks. RESULTS Impaired receptive emotional prosody and impaired emotional facial expression recognition were both predicted by greater percent damage to the caudate. The k-medoid cluster analysis identified three different subtypes of aprosodia. One group was primarily impaired on Stage 1 processing and primarily had frontotemporal lesions. The second group had a domain-general emotion recognition impairment and maximal lesion overlap in subcortical areas. Finally, the third group was characterized by a Stage 2 processing deficit and had lesion overlap in posterior regions. CONCLUSIONS Subcortical structures, particularly the caudate, play an important role in emotional prosody comprehension. Receptive aprosodia can result from impairments at different processing stages.
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- Shannon M Sheppard
- Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Chapman University, Irvine, CA, USA; Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Cognitive Science, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Weed E, Fusaroli R. Acoustic Measures of Prosody in Right-Hemisphere Damage: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2020; 63:1762-1775. [PMID: 32432947 DOI: 10.1044/2020_jslhr-19-00241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Purpose The aim of the study was to use systematic review and meta-analysis to quantitatively assess the currently available acoustic evidence for prosodic production impairments as a result of right-hemisphere damage (RHD), as well as to develop methodological recommendations for future studies. Method We systematically reviewed papers reporting acoustic features of prosodic production in RHD in order to identify shortcomings in the literature and make recommendations for future studies. We estimated the meta-analytic effect size of the acoustic features. We extracted standardized mean differences from 16 papers and estimated aggregated effect sizes using hierarchical Bayesian regression models. Results RHD did present reduced fundamental frequency variation, but the trait was shared with left-hemisphere damage. RHD also presented evidence for increased pause duration. No meta-analytic evidence for an effect of prosody type (emotional vs. linguistic) was found. Conclusions Taken together, the currently available acoustic data show only a weak specific effect of RHD on prosody production. However, the results are not definitive, as more reliable analyses are hindered by small sample sizes, lack of detail on lesion location, and divergent measuring techniques. We propose recommendations to overcome these issues: Cumulative science practices (e.g., open data and code sharing), more nuanced speech signal processing techniques, and the integration of acoustic measures and perceptual judgments are recommended to more effectively investigate prosody in RHD.
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- Ethan Weed
- School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Sheppard SM, Keator LM, Breining BL, Wright AE, Saxena S, Tippett DC, Hillis AE. Right hemisphere ventral stream for emotional prosody identification: Evidence from acute stroke. Neurology 2019; 94:e1013-e1020. [PMID: 31892632 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000008870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2018] [Accepted: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether right ventral stream and limbic structures (including posterior superior temporal gyrus [STG], STG, temporal pole, inferior frontal gyrus pars orbitalis, orbitofrontal cortex, amygdala, anterior cingulate, gyrus, and the sagittal stratum) are implicated in emotional prosody identification. METHODS Patients with MRI scans within 48 hours of unilateral right hemisphere ischemic stroke were enrolled. Participants were presented with 24 sentences with neutral semantic content spoken with happy, sad, angry, afraid, surprised, or bored prosody and chose which emotion the speaker was feeling based on tone of voice. Multivariable linear regression was used to identify individual predictors of emotional prosody identification accuracy from a model, including percent damage to proposed right hemisphere structures, age, education, and lesion volume across all emotions (overall emotion identification) and 6 individual emotions. Patterns of recovery were also examined at the chronic stage. RESULTS The overall emotion identification model was significant (adjusted r 2 = 0.52; p = 0.043); greater damage to right posterior STG (p = 0.038) and older age (p = 0.009) were individual predictors of impairment. The model for recognition of fear was also significant (adjusted r 2 = 0.77; p = 0.002), with greater damage to right amygdala (p = 0.047), older age (p < 0.001), and less education (p = 0.005) as individual predictors. Over half of patients with chronic stroke had residual impairments. CONCLUSIONS Right posterior STG in the right hemisphere ventral stream is critical for emotion identification in speech. Patients with stroke with damage to this area should be assessed for emotion identification impairment.
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- Shannon M Sheppard
- From the Departments of Neurology (S.M.S., L.M.K., B.L.B., A.E.W., S.S., D.C.T., A.E.H.), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (D.C.T., A.E.H.), and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (D.C.T.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Department of Cognitive Science (A.E.H.), Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
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- From the Departments of Neurology (S.M.S., L.M.K., B.L.B., A.E.W., S.S., D.C.T., A.E.H.), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (D.C.T., A.E.H.), and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (D.C.T.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Department of Cognitive Science (A.E.H.), Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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- From the Departments of Neurology (S.M.S., L.M.K., B.L.B., A.E.W., S.S., D.C.T., A.E.H.), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (D.C.T., A.E.H.), and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (D.C.T.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Department of Cognitive Science (A.E.H.), Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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- From the Departments of Neurology (S.M.S., L.M.K., B.L.B., A.E.W., S.S., D.C.T., A.E.H.), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (D.C.T., A.E.H.), and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (D.C.T.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Department of Cognitive Science (A.E.H.), Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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- From the Departments of Neurology (S.M.S., L.M.K., B.L.B., A.E.W., S.S., D.C.T., A.E.H.), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (D.C.T., A.E.H.), and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (D.C.T.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Department of Cognitive Science (A.E.H.), Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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- From the Departments of Neurology (S.M.S., L.M.K., B.L.B., A.E.W., S.S., D.C.T., A.E.H.), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (D.C.T., A.E.H.), and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (D.C.T.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Department of Cognitive Science (A.E.H.), Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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- From the Departments of Neurology (S.M.S., L.M.K., B.L.B., A.E.W., S.S., D.C.T., A.E.H.), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (D.C.T., A.E.H.), and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (D.C.T.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Department of Cognitive Science (A.E.H.), Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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Sheppard SM, Love T, Midgley KJ, Shapiro LP, Holcomb PJ. Using prosody during sentence processing in aphasia: Evidence from temporal neural dynamics. Neuropsychologia 2019; 134:107197. [PMID: 31542361 PMCID: PMC6911311 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Revised: 04/17/2019] [Accepted: 09/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Shannon M Sheppard
- San Diego State University, USA; University of California, San Diego, USA.
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- San Diego State University, USA; University of California, San Diego, USA
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- San Diego State University, USA; University of California, San Diego, USA
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Sheppard SM, Hillis AE. That's right! Language comprehension beyond the left hemisphere. Brain 2019; 141:3280-3289. [PMID: 30496360 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awy291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Shannon M Sheppard
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Cognitive Science, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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