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Balzan P, Palmer R, Tattersall C. Speech and language therapists' management practices, perceived effectiveness of current treatments and interest in neuromuscular electrical stimulation for acquired dysarthria rehabilitation: An international perspective. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS 2024; 59:744-761. [PMID: 37818779 DOI: 10.1111/1460-6984.12963] [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: 01/09/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND Research is beginning to shed light on the practices employed by speech-language therapists (SLTs) for the management of acquired dysarthria. However, studies that explore SLTs' satisfaction with the effectiveness of current therapies and their interest in new treatment methods for this population have not been carried out. One potential new method is neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES): the pool of evidence for its use in rehabilitation is increasing, yet it has not been widely explored for use with dysarthria. AIM To extend the understanding of acquired dysarthria management practices employed by SLTs across the globe and determine their satisfaction with current therapy options. To explore their interest in using NMES with this population. METHODS AND PROCEDURES A cross-sectional international online survey was developed and disseminated to SLTs working with adults with acquired dysarthria through international professional associations. The survey collected information on demographic characteristics, dysarthria management practices, satisfaction with treatment effectiveness and interest in and knowledge of NMES. Survey responses were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics, and quantitative content analysis. OUTCOMES AND RESULTS A total of 211 SLTs (North America, 48.8%; Europe, 36%; Asia, 8.1%; Oceania, 5.7%; Africa, 0.9%; South America, 0.5%) completed the survey in full. Management practices varied considerably. There was a clear preference for informal assessments, mainly oral-motor examinations, focusing on body functions and structures. The majority of respondents rejected the use of non-speech oral motor exercises as a clinical or carryover exercise. Variable satisfaction with current speech subsystem treatments was noted; however, overall, there was a general dissatisfaction. Whilst a strong interest in the use of NMES for dysarthria was evidenced, it was noted that most SLTs lacked fundamental knowledge of NMES principles and application. CONCLUSION SLTs' management practices and satisfaction with acquired dysarthria treatments differed substantially. Investigations of the potential use of NMES for dysarthria treatment are of interest. WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS What is already known on the subject Recent country-specific surveys have explored speech-language therapists' (SLTs') assessment and intervention practices for acquired dysarthria. These studies indicate that although clinical management for this speech disorder mainly involves informal assessment tools and impairment-focused treatment, communication beyond the impairment, such as the activity and participation domains, is also frequently assessed and treated. What this paper adds to existing knowledge The majority of SLTs are dissatisfied with the overall benefits of current acquired dysarthria treatment. Phonatory, respiration and speech rate therapies are perceived to be more effective than prosody, articulation and resonance treatments. Despite a general lack of theoretical knowledge, most SLTs are interested in neuromuscular electrical stimulation treatment for acquired dysarthria. What are the potential or actual clinical implications of this work? New, evidence-based treatments are needed for SLTs to be confident in the effectiveness of their acquired dysarthria treatment.
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- Pasquale Balzan
- Division of Human Communication Sciences, School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Division of Human Communication Sciences, School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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Manes JL, Kurani AS, Herschel E, Roberts AC, Tjaden K, Parrish T, Corcos DM. Premotor cortex is hypoactive during sustained vowel production in individuals with Parkinson's disease and hypophonia. Front Hum Neurosci 2023; 17:1250114. [PMID: 37941570 PMCID: PMC10629592 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1250114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023] Open
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Introduction Hypophonia is a common feature of Parkinson's disease (PD); however, the contribution of motor cortical activity to reduced phonatory scaling in PD is still not clear. Methods In this study, we employed a sustained vowel production task during functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare brain activity between individuals with PD and hypophonia and an older healthy control (OHC) group. Results When comparing vowel production versus rest, the PD group showed fewer regions with significant BOLD activity compared to OHCs. Within the motor cortices, both OHC and PD groups showed bilateral activation of the laryngeal/phonatory area (LPA) of the primary motor cortex as well as activation of the supplementary motor area. The OHC group also recruited additional activity in the bilateral trunk motor area and right dorsal premotor cortex (PMd). A voxel-wise comparison of PD and HC groups showed that activity in right PMd was significantly lower in the PD group compared to OHC (p < 0.001, uncorrected). Right PMd activity was positively correlated with maximum phonation time in the PD group and negatively correlated with perceptual severity ratings of loudness and pitch. Discussion Our findings suggest that hypoactivation of PMd may be associated with abnormal phonatory control in PD.
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- Jordan L. Manes
- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Western University, London, ON, Canada
- Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging, Western University, London, ON, Canada
- Department of Computer Science, Western University, London, ON, Canada
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
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- Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States
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Zamorano AM, Zatorre RJ, Vuust P, Friberg A, Birbaumer N, Kleber B. Singing training predicts increased insula connectivity with speech and respiratory sensorimotor areas at rest. Brain Res 2023:148418. [PMID: 37217111 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2023.148418] [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: 08/15/2022] [Revised: 03/28/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The insula contributes to the detection of salient events during goal-directed behavior and participates in the coordination of motor, multisensory, and cognitive systems. Recent task-fMRI studies with trained singers suggest that singing experience can enhance the access to these resources. However, the long-term effects of vocal training on insula-based networks are still unknown. In this study, we employed resting-state fMRI to assess experience-dependent differences in insula co-activation patterns between conservatory-trained singers and non-singers. Results indicate enhanced bilateral anterior insula connectivity in singers relative to non-singers with constituents of the speech sensorimotor network. Specifically, with the cerebellum (lobule V-VI) and the superior parietal lobes. The reversed comparison showed no effects. The amount of accumulated singing training predicted enhanced bilateral insula co-activation with primary sensorimotor areas representing the diaphragm and the larynx/phonation area-crucial regions for cortico-motor control of complex vocalizations-as well as the bilateral thalamus and the left putamen. Together, these findings highlight the neuroplastic effect of expert singing training on insula-based networks, as evidenced by the association between enhanced insula co-activation profiles in singers and the brain's speech motor system components.
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- A M Zamorano
- Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain (CNAP), Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- McGill University-Montreal Neurological Institute, Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Montreal, Canada; International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound research (BRAMS), Montreal, Canada
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
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- Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute for Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany; Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark.
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The effects of slow breathing on postural muscles during standing perturbations in young adults. Exp Brain Res 2022; 240:2623-2631. [PMID: 35962803 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-022-06437-0] [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: 05/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Maintaining standing balance is vital to completing activities in daily living. Recent findings suggest an interaction between cardiovascular and postural control systems. Volitional slow breathing can modulate the cardiovascular response and affect postural control during quiet standing. However, the effects of slow breathing during threats to standing balance have not been studied. The study examined the effect of slow breathing on the latency and amplitude of postural muscle responses to perturbations of the base of support in healthy, young adults. Twenty-seven participants completed two balance perturbation tasks in standing on an instrumented split-belt treadmill while breathing spontaneously and breathing at 6 breaths per minute. Each perturbation task consisted of 25 posteriorly directed translations of the treadmill belts every 8-12 s. Muscle latency and muscle burst amplitude were measured using surface electromyography from the right limb for the quadriceps (QUADS), medial hamstring (MH), gastrocnemii (GASTROC), soleus (SOL), and tibialis anterior (TA) muscle groups, while a respiratory belt was used to record respiratory rate. Results indicated that during the slow breathing task both muscle latency (p = 0.022) and muscle burst amplitude (p = 0.011) decreased compared to spontaneous breathing. The EMG pre-perturbation activation was not significantly different in any muscle group between conditions (p > 0.167). The study found that reducing respiratory rate to approximately 6 breaths per minute affects the neuromuscular responses in the lower limb muscles to perturbations.
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Hansen HA, Stefancin P, Leber AB, Saygin ZM. Neural evidence for non-orofacial triggers in mild misophonia. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:880759. [PMID: 36017175 PMCID: PMC9397125 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.880759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Misophonia, an extreme aversion to certain environmental sounds, is a highly prevalent yet understudied condition plaguing roughly 20% of the general population. Although neuroimaging research on misophonia is scant, recent work showing higher resting-state functional connectivity (rs-fMRI) between auditory cortex and orofacial motor cortex in misophonia vs. controls has led researchers to speculate that misophonia is caused by orofacial mirror neurons. Since orofacial motor cortex was defined using rs-fMRI, we attempted to theoretically replicate these findings using orofacial cortex defined by task-based fMRI instead. Further, given our recent work showing that a wide variety of sounds can be triggering (i.e., not just oral/nasal sounds), we investigated whether there is any neural evidence for misophonic aversion to non-orofacial stimuli. Sampling 19 adults with varying misophonia from the community, we collected resting state data and an fMRI task involving phoneme articulation and finger-tapping. We first defined “orofacial” cortex in each participant using rs-fMRI as done previously, producing what we call resting-state regions of interest (rsROIs). Additionally, we functionally defined regions (fROIs) representing “orofacial” or “finger” cortex using phoneme or finger-tapping activation from the fMRI task, respectively. To investigate the motor specificity of connectivity differences, we subdivided the rsROIs and fROIs into separate sensorimotor areas based on their overlap with two common atlases. We then calculated rs-fMRI between each rsROI/fROI and a priori non-sensorimotor ROIs. We found increased connectivity in mild misophonia between rsROIs and both auditory cortex and insula, theoretically replicating previous results, with differences extending across multiple sensorimotor regions. However, the orofacial task-based fROIs did not show this pattern, suggesting the “orofacial” cortex described previously was not capturing true orofacial cortex; in fact, using task-based fMRI evidence, we find no selectivity to orofacial action in these previously described “orofacial” regions. Instead, we observed higher connectivity between finger fROIs and insula in mild misophonia, demonstrating neural evidence for non-orofacial triggers. These results provide support for a neural representation of misophonia beyond merely an orofacial/motor origin, leading to important implications for the conceptualization and treatment of misophonia.
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Yeung AWK. Differences in Brain Responses to Food or Tastants Delivered with and Without Swallowing: a Meta-analysis on Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Studies. CHEMOSENS PERCEPT 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s12078-022-09299-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Belyk M, Eichert N, McGettigan C. A dual larynx motor networks hypothesis. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2021; 376:20200392. [PMID: 34719252 PMCID: PMC8558777 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/05/2021] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Humans are vocal modulators par excellence. This ability is supported in part by the dual representation of the laryngeal muscles in the motor cortex. Movement, however, is not the product of motor cortex alone but of a broader motor network. This network consists of brain regions that contain somatotopic maps that parallel the organization in motor cortex. We therefore present a novel hypothesis that the dual laryngeal representation is repeated throughout the broader motor network. In support of the hypothesis, we review existing literature that demonstrates the existence of network-wide somatotopy and present initial evidence for the hypothesis' plausibility. Understanding how this uniquely human phenotype in motor cortex interacts with broader brain networks is an important step toward understanding how humans evolved the ability to speak. We further suggest that this system may provide a means to study how individual components of the nervous system evolved within the context of neuronal networks. This article is part of the theme issue 'Voice modulation: from origin and mechanism to social impact (Part I)'.
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- Michel Belyk
- Department of Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London, London WC1N 1PJ, UK
- Department of Psychology, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, L39 4QP, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
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- Department of Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London, London WC1N 1PJ, UK
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Human larynx motor cortices coordinate respiration for vocal-motor control. Neuroimage 2021; 239:118326. [PMID: 34216772 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 05/22/2021] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Vocal flexibility is a hallmark of the human species, most particularly the capacity to speak and sing. This ability is supported in part by the evolution of a direct neural pathway linking the motor cortex to the brainstem nucleus that controls the larynx the primary sound source for communication. Early brain imaging studies demonstrated that larynx motor cortex at the dorsal end of the orofacial division of motor cortex (dLMC) integrated laryngeal and respiratory control, thereby coordinating two major muscular systems that are necessary for vocalization. Neurosurgical studies have since demonstrated the existence of a second larynx motor area at the ventral extent of the orofacial motor division (vLMC) of motor cortex. The vLMC has been presumed to be less relevant to speech motor control, but its functional role remains unknown. We employed a novel ultra-high field (7T) magnetic resonance imaging paradigm that combined singing and whistling simple melodies to localise the larynx motor cortices and test their involvement in respiratory motor control. Surprisingly, whistling activated both 'larynx areas' more strongly than singing despite the reduced involvement of the larynx during whistling. We provide further evidence for the existence of two larynx motor areas in the human brain, and the first evidence that laryngeal-respiratory integration is a shared property of both larynx motor areas. We outline explicit predictions about the descending motor pathways that give these cortical areas access to both the laryngeal and respiratory systems and discuss the implications for the evolution of speech.
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Wilson GH, Stavisky SD, Willett FR, Avansino DT, Kelemen JN, Hochberg LR, Henderson JM, Druckmann S, Shenoy KV. Decoding spoken English from intracortical electrode arrays in dorsal precentral gyrus. J Neural Eng 2020; 17:066007. [PMID: 33236720 PMCID: PMC8293867 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/abbfef] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the potential of intracortical electrode array signals for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to restore lost speech, we measured the performance of decoders trained to discriminate a comprehensive basis set of 39 English phonemes and to synthesize speech sounds via a neural pattern matching method. We decoded neural correlates of spoken-out-loud words in the 'hand knob' area of precentral gyrus, a step toward the eventual goal of decoding attempted speech from ventral speech areas in patients who are unable to speak. APPROACH Neural and audio data were recorded while two BrainGate2 pilot clinical trial participants, each with two chronically-implanted 96-electrode arrays, spoke 420 different words that broadly sampled English phonemes. Phoneme onsets were identified from audio recordings, and their identities were then classified from neural features consisting of each electrode's binned action potential counts or high-frequency local field potential power. Speech synthesis was performed using the 'Brain-to-Speech' pattern matching method. We also examined two potential confounds specific to decoding overt speech: acoustic contamination of neural signals and systematic differences in labeling different phonemes' onset times. MAIN RESULTS A linear decoder achieved up to 29.3% classification accuracy (chance = 6%) across 39 phonemes, while an RNN classifier achieved 33.9% accuracy. Parameter sweeps indicated that performance did not saturate when adding more electrodes or more training data, and that accuracy improved when utilizing time-varying structure in the data. Microphonic contamination and phoneme onset differences modestly increased decoding accuracy, but could be mitigated by acoustic artifact subtraction and using a neural speech onset marker, respectively. Speech synthesis achieved r = 0.523 correlation between true and reconstructed audio. SIGNIFICANCE The ability to decode speech using intracortical electrode array signals from a nontraditional speech area suggests that placing electrode arrays in ventral speech areas is a promising direction for speech BCIs.
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- Guy H Wilson
- Neurosciences Graduate Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Bio-X Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Dept. of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
- VA RR&D Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Rehabilitation R&D Service, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI, United States of America
- Carney Institute for Brain Science and School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Bio-X Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Bio-X Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Bio-X Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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El Otmani H. Undulating Tongue and Wilson's Disease. Mov Disord Clin Pract 2020; 7:477. [PMID: 32373672 PMCID: PMC7197314 DOI: 10.1002/mdc3.12932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2020] [Revised: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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- Hicham El Otmani
- Neurology Department, Ibn Rochd University Hospital and Genetic and Molecular Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine and PharmacyHassan II UniversityCasablancaMorocco
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Sörös P, Schäfer S, Witt K. Model-Based and Model-Free Analyses of the Neural Correlates of Tongue Movements. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:226. [PMID: 32265635 PMCID: PMC7105808 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2019] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The tongue performs movements in all directions to subserve its diverse functions in chewing, swallowing, and speech production. Using task-based functional MRI in a group of 17 healthy young participants, we studied (1) potential differences in the cerebral control of frontal (protrusion), horizontal (side to side), and vertical (elevation) tongue movements and (2) inter-individual differences in tongue motor control. To investigate differences between different tongue movements, we performed voxel-wise multiple linear regressions. To investigate inter-individual differences, we applied a novel approach, spatio-temporal filtering of independent components. For this approach, individual functional data were decomposed into spatially independent components and corresponding time courses using independent component analysis. A temporal filter (correlation with the expected brain response) was used to identify independent components time-locked to the tongue motor tasks. A spatial filter (cross-correlation with established neurofunctional systems) was used to identify brain activity not time-locked to the tasks. Our results confirm the importance of an extended bilateral cortical and subcortical network for the control of tongue movements. Frontal (protrusion) tongue movements, highly overlearned movements related to speech production, showed less activity in the frontal and parietal lobes compared to horizontal (side to side) and vertical (elevation) movements and greater activity in the left frontal and temporal lobes compared to vertical movements (cluster-forming threshold of Z > 3.1, cluster significance threshold of p < 0.01, corrected for multiple comparisons). The investigation of inter-individual differences revealed a component representing the tongue primary sensorimotor cortex time-locked to the task in all participants. Using the spatial filter, we found the default mode network in 16 of 17 participants, the left fronto-parietal network in 16, the right fronto-parietal network in 8, and the executive control network in four participants (Pearson's r > 0.4 between neurofunctional systems and individual components). These results demonstrate that spatio-temporal filtering of independent components allows to identify individual brain activity related to a specific task and also structured spatiotemporal processes representing known neurofunctional systems on an individual basis. This novel approach may be useful for the assessment of individual patients and results may be related to individual clinical, behavioral, and genetic information.
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- Peter Sörös
- Neurology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.,Research Center Neurosensory Science, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Neurology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Neurology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.,Research Center Neurosensory Science, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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Tourville JA, Nieto-Castañón A, Heyne M, Guenther FH. Functional Parcellation of the Speech Production Cortex. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2019; 62:3055-3070. [PMID: 31465713 PMCID: PMC6813033 DOI: 10.1044/2019_jslhr-s-csmc7-18-0442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2018] [Revised: 03/18/2019] [Accepted: 05/16/2019] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Neuroimaging has revealed a core network of cortical regions that contribute to speech production, but the functional organization of this network remains poorly understood. Purpose We describe efforts to identify reliable boundaries around functionally homogenous regions within the cortical speech motor control network in order to improve the sensitivity of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analyses of speech production and thus improve our understanding of the functional organization of speech production in the brain. Method We used a bottom-up, data-driven approach by pooling data from 12 previously conducted fMRI studies of speech production involving the production of monosyllabic and bisyllabic words and pseudowords that ranged from single vowels and consonant-vowel pairs to short sentences (163 scanning sessions, 136 unique participants, 39 different speech conditions). After preprocessing all data through the same pipeline and registering individual contrast maps to a common surface space, hierarchical clustering was applied to contrast maps randomly sampled from the pooled data set in order to identify consistent functional boundaries across subjects and tasks. Boundary completion was achieved by applying adaptive smoothing and watershed segmentation to the thresholded population-level boundary map. Hierarchical clustering was applied to the mean within-functional region of interest (fROI) response to identify networks of fROIs that respond similarly during speech. Results We identified highly reliable functional boundaries across the cortical areas involved in speech production. Boundary completion resulted in 117 fROIs in the left hemisphere and 109 in the right hemisphere. Clustering of the mean within-fROI response revealed a core sensorimotor network flanked by a speech motor planning network. The majority of the left inferior frontal gyrus clustered with the visual word form area and brain regions (e.g., anterior insula, dorsal anterior cingulate) associated with detecting salient sensory inputs and choosing the appropriate action. Conclusion The fROIs provide insight into the organization of the speech production network and a valuable tool for studying speech production in the brain by improving within-group and between-groups comparisons of speech-related brain activity. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.9402674.
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- Jason A. Tourville
- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, MA
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, MA
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, MA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, MA
- Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown
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Basilakos A, Smith KG, Fillmore P, Fridriksson J, Fedorenko E. Functional Characterization of the Human Speech Articulation Network. Cereb Cortex 2019; 28:1816-1830. [PMID: 28453613 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhx100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2016] [Accepted: 04/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
A number of brain regions have been implicated in articulation, but their precise computations remain debated. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we examine the degree of functional specificity of articulation-responsive brain regions to constrain hypotheses about their contributions to speech production. We find that articulation-responsive regions (1) are sensitive to articulatory complexity, but (2) are largely nonoverlapping with nearby domain-general regions that support diverse goal-directed behaviors. Furthermore, premotor articulation regions show selectivity for speech production over some related tasks (respiration control), but not others (nonspeech oral-motor [NSO] movements). This overlap between speech and nonspeech movements concords with electrocorticographic evidence that these regions encode articulators and their states, and with patient evidence whereby articulatory deficits are often accompanied by oral-motor deficits. In contrast, the superior temporal regions show strong selectivity for articulation relative to nonspeech movements, suggesting that these regions play a specific role in speech planning/production. Finally, articulation-responsive portions of posterior inferior frontal gyrus show some selectivity for articulation, in line with the hypothesis that this region prepares an articulatory code that is passed to the premotor cortex. Taken together, these results inform the architecture of the human articulation system.
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- Alexandra Basilakos
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.,Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.,Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Chrabaszcz A, Neumann WJ, Stretcu O, Lipski WJ, Bush A, Dastolfo-Hromack CA, Wang D, Crammond DJ, Shaiman S, Dickey MW, Holt LL, Turner RS, Fiez JA, Richardson RM. Subthalamic Nucleus and Sensorimotor Cortex Activity During Speech Production. J Neurosci 2019; 39:2698-2708. [PMID: 30700532 PMCID: PMC6445998 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2842-18.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2018] [Revised: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The sensorimotor cortex is somatotopically organized to represent the vocal tract articulators such as lips, tongue, larynx, and jaw. How speech and articulatory features are encoded at the subcortical level, however, remains largely unknown. We analyzed LFP recordings from the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and simultaneous electrocorticography recordings from the sensorimotor cortex of 11 human subjects (1 female) with Parkinson's disease during implantation of deep-brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes while they read aloud three-phoneme words. The initial phonemes involved either articulation primarily with the tongue (coronal consonants) or the lips (labial consonants). We observed significant increases in high-gamma (60-150 Hz) power in both the STN and the sensorimotor cortex that began before speech onset and persisted for the duration of speech articulation. As expected from previous reports, in the sensorimotor cortex, the primary articulators involved in the production of the initial consonants were topographically represented by high-gamma activity. We found that STN high-gamma activity also demonstrated specificity for the primary articulator, although no clear topography was observed. In general, subthalamic high-gamma activity varied along the ventral-dorsal trajectory of the electrodes, with greater high-gamma power recorded in the dorsal locations of the STN. Interestingly, the majority of significant articulator-discriminative activity in the STN occurred before that in sensorimotor cortex. These results demonstrate that articulator-specific speech information is contained within high-gamma activity of the STN, but with different spatial and temporal organization compared with similar information encoded in the sensorimotor cortex.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Clinical and electrophysiological evidence suggest that the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is involved in speech; however, this important basal ganglia node is ignored in current models of speech production. We previously showed that STN neurons differentially encode early and late aspects of speech production, but no previous studies have examined subthalamic functional organization for speech articulators. Using simultaneous LFP recordings from the sensorimotor cortex and the STN in patients with Parkinson's disease undergoing deep-brain stimulation surgery, we discovered that STN high-gamma activity tracks speech production at the level of vocal tract articulators before the onset of vocalization and often before related cortical encoding.
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- Anna Chrabaszcz
- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Campus Mitte, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 10117
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- Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Brain Modulation Laboratory, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Brain Modulation Laboratory, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
- Department of Physics, FCEN, University of Buenos Aires and IFIBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1428
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- Brain Modulation Laboratory, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Brain Modulation Laboratory, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
- School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 100084
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- Brain Modulation Laboratory, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Department of Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Department of Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, and
- University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
- Department of Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
- University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Brain Modulation Laboratory, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213,
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, and
- University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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Kern M, Bert S, Glanz O, Schulze-Bonhage A, Ball T. Human motor cortex relies on sparse and action-specific activation during laughing, smiling and speech production. Commun Biol 2019; 2:118. [PMID: 30937400 PMCID: PMC6435746 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0360-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2018] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Smiling, laughing, and overt speech production are fundamental to human everyday communication. However, little is known about how the human brain achieves the highly accurate and differentiated control of such orofacial movement during natural conditions. Here, we utilized the high spatiotemporal resolution of subdural recordings to elucidate how human motor cortex is functionally engaged during control of real-life orofacial motor behaviour. For each investigated movement class-lip licking, speech production, laughing and smiling-our findings reveal a characteristic brain activity pattern within the mouth motor cortex with both spatial segregation and overlap between classes. Our findings thus show that motor cortex relies on sparse and action-specific activation during real-life orofacial behaviour, apparently organized in distinct but overlapping subareas that control different types of natural orofacial movements.
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- Markus Kern
- Medical AI Lab, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79106 Germany
- Neurobiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79104 Germany
- Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79106 Germany
- BrainLinks-BrainTools Cluster of Excellence, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79110 Germany
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- Neurobiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79104 Germany
- Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79106 Germany
- BrainLinks-BrainTools Cluster of Excellence, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79110 Germany
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- Medical AI Lab, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79106 Germany
- Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79106 Germany
- BrainLinks-BrainTools Cluster of Excellence, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79110 Germany
- Hermann Paul School Linguistics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79085 Germany
- GRK 1624, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79098 Germany
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- Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79106 Germany
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- Medical AI Lab, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79106 Germany
- BrainLinks-BrainTools Cluster of Excellence, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, 79110 Germany
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Speech and Language Impairments After Childhood Arterial Ischemic Stroke: Does Hemisphere Matter? Pediatr Neurol 2019; 92:55-59. [PMID: 30594525 DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2018.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Revised: 11/01/2018] [Accepted: 11/10/2018] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND The association between left hemisphere stroke and acute speech and language impairment is well documented in adults. However, little is known about this association in childhood arterial ischemic stroke. Here we examined potential predictors of acute speech (dysarthria and apraxia) and language impairments after childhood arterial ischemic stroke, including site of lesion. METHODS Children with radiologically confirmed acute arterial ischemic stroke, admitted to a tertiary pediatric hospital from 2004 to 2012, were identified from an institutional registry. We examined the prevalence of dysarthria, apraxia, and language impairment within two weeks of the stroke. Associations with age at stroke event, lesion side (left, right, or bilateral), and arterial territory affected (anterior, posterior, or both) were assessed using logistic regression. RESULTS Sixty-two children with mean age eight years (range three to 17 years) were identified. Strokes were located in the left (32%), right (44%), or both hemispheres (24%). Dysarthria (74%) and language impairment (50%) were frequent. Verbal dyspraxia was less common (11%). There was little evidence that variables of interest, including site of lesion, were significantly associated with increased odds of dysarthria or language impairment (all P > 0.49). CONCLUSIONS Regardless of age, children are at high risk of communication disorders after stroke. Unlike adults, left hemisphere stroke was not associated with either speech or language impairment in our cohort, suggesting there may be bihemispheric contribution to language function. Future studies are needed to examine whether the predictors examined here determine long-term outcomes.
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Northam GB, Morgan AT, Fitzsimmons S, Baldeweg T, Liégeois FJ. Corticobulbar Tract Injury, Oromotor Impairment and Language Plasticity in Adolescents Born Preterm. Front Hum Neurosci 2019; 13:45. [PMID: 30837853 PMCID: PMC6389783 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2018] [Accepted: 01/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Children born preterm are at risk of impairments in oromotor control, with implications for early feeding and speech development. In this study, we aimed to identify (a) neuroanatomical markers of persistent oromotor deficits using diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) tractography and (b) evidence of compensatory neuroplasticity using functional MRI (fMRI) during a language production task. In a cross-sectional study of 36 adolescents born very preterm (<33 weeks' gestation) we identified persistent difficulties in oromotor control in 31% of cases, but no clinical diagnoses of speech-sound disorder (e.g., dysarthria, dyspraxia). We used DWI-tractography to examine the microstructure (fractional anisotropy, FA) of the corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts. Compared to the unimpaired group, the oromotor-impaired group showed (i) reduced FA within the dorsal portion of the left corticobulbar tract (containing fibres associated with movements of the lips, tongue, and larynx) and (ii) greater recruitment of right hemisphere language regions on fMRI. We conclude that, despite the development of apparently normal everyday speech, early injury to the corticobulbar tract leads to persistent subclinical problems with voluntary control of the face, lips, jaw, and tongue. Furthermore, we speculate that early speech problems may be ameliorated by cerebral plasticity - in particular, recruitment of right hemisphere language areas.
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- Gemma B. Northam
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
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- Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
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- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
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- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
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Nakamichi N, Takamoto K, Nishimaru H, Fujiwara K, Takamura Y, Matsumoto J, Noguchi M, Nishijo H. Cerebral Hemodynamics in Speech-Related Cortical Areas: Articulation Learning Involves the Inferior Frontal Gyrus, Ventral Sensory-Motor Cortex, and Parietal-Temporal Sylvian Area. Front Neurol 2018; 9:939. [PMID: 30443239 PMCID: PMC6221925 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Although motor training programs have been applied to childhood apraxia of speech (AOS), the neural mechanisms of articulation learning are not well understood. To this aim, we recorded cerebral hemodynamic activity in the left hemisphere of healthy subjects (n = 15) during articulation learning. We used near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) while articulated voices were recorded and analyzed using spectrograms. The study consisted of two experimental sessions (modified and control sessions) in which participants were asked to repeat the articulation of the syllables "i-chi-ni" with and without an occlusal splint. This splint was used to increase the vertical dimension of occlusion to mimic conditions of articulation disorder. There were more articulation errors in the modified session, but number of errors were decreased in the final half of the modified session; this suggests that articulation learning took place. The hemodynamic NIRS data revealed significant activation during articulation in the frontal, parietal, and temporal cortices. These areas are involved in phonological processing and articulation planning and execution, and included the following areas: (i) the ventral sensory-motor cortex (vSMC), including the Rolandic operculum, precentral gyrus, and postcentral gyrus, (ii) the dorsal sensory-motor cortex, including the precentral and postcentral gyri, (iii) the opercular part of the inferior frontal gyrus (IFGoperc), (iv) the temporal cortex, including the superior temporal gyrus, and (v) the inferior parietal lobe (IPL), including the supramarginal and angular gyri. The posterior Sylvian fissure at the parietal-temporal boundary (area Spt) was selectively activated in the modified session. Furthermore, hemodynamic activity in the IFGoperc and vSMC was increased in the final half of the modified session compared with its initial half, and negatively correlated with articulation errors during articulation learning in the modified session. The present results suggest an essential role of the frontal regions, including the IFGoperc and vSMC, in articulation learning, with sensory feedback through area Spt and the IPL. The present study provides clues to the underlying pathology and treatment of childhood apraxia of speech.
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- Naomi Nakamichi
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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- System Emotional Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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- System Emotional Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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- System Emotional Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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- System Emotional Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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- System Emotional Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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Belyk M, Lee YS, Brown S. How does human motor cortex regulate vocal pitch in singers? ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2018; 5:172208. [PMID: 30224990 PMCID: PMC6124115 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.172208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 07/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Vocal pitch is used as an important communicative device by humans, as found in the melodic dimension of both speech and song. Vocal pitch is determined by the degree of tension in the vocal folds of the larynx, which itself is influenced by complex and nonlinear interactions among the laryngeal muscles. The relationship between these muscles and vocal pitch has been described by a mathematical model in the form of a set of 'control rules'. We searched for the biological implementation of these control rules in the larynx motor cortex of the human brain. We scanned choral singers with functional magnetic resonance imaging as they produced discrete pitches at four different levels across their vocal range. While the locations of the larynx motor activations varied across singers, the activation peaks for the four pitch levels were highly consistent within each individual singer. This result was corroborated using multi-voxel pattern analysis, which demonstrated an absence of patterned activations differentiating any pairing of pitch levels. The complex and nonlinear relationships between the multiple laryngeal muscles that control vocal pitch may obscure the neural encoding of vocal pitch in the brain.
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- Michel Belyk
- Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Center for Brain Injury, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Kurata K. Hierarchical Organization Within the Ventral Premotor Cortex of the Macaque Monkey. Neuroscience 2018; 382:127-143. [PMID: 29715510 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.04.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2017] [Revised: 04/20/2018] [Accepted: 04/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Recent studies have revealed that the ventral premotor cortex (PMv) of nonhuman primates plays a pivotal role in various behaviors that require the transformation of sensory cues to appropriate actions. Examples include decision-making based on various sensory cues, preparation for upcoming motor behavior, adaptive sensorimotor transformation, and the generation of motor commands using rapid sensory feedback. Although the PMv has frequently been regarded as a single entity, it can be divided into at least five functionally distinct regions: F4, a dorsal convexity region immediately rostral to the primary motor cortex (M1); F5p, a cortical region immediately rostral to F4, lying within the arcuate sulcus; F5c, a ventral convexity region rostral to F4; and F5a, located in the caudal bank of the arcuate sulcus inferior limb lateral to F5p. Among these, F4 can be further divided into dorsal and ventral subregions (F4d and F4v), which are involved in forelimb and orofacial movements, respectively. F5p contains "mirror neurons" to understand others' actions based on visual and other types of information, and F4d and F5p work together as a functional complex involved in controlling forelimb and eye movements, most efficiently in the execution and completion of coordinated eye-hand movements for reaching and grasping under visual guidance. In contrast, F5c and F5a are hierarchically higher than the F4d, F5p, and F5v complexes, and play a role in decision-making based on various sensory discriminations. Hence, the PMv subregions form a hierarchically organized integral system from decision-making to eye-hand coordination under various behavioral circumstances.
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- Kiyoshi Kurata
- Department of Physiology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan.
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Belyk M, Johnson JF, Kotz SA. Poor neuro-motor tuning of the human larynx: a comparison of sung and whistled pitch imitation. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2018; 5:171544. [PMID: 29765635 PMCID: PMC5936900 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2017] [Accepted: 03/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Vocal imitation is a hallmark of human communication that underlies the capacity to learn to speak and sing. Even so, poor vocal imitation abilities are surprisingly common in the general population and even expert vocalists cannot match the precision of a musical instrument. Although humans have evolved a greater degree of control over the laryngeal muscles that govern voice production, this ability may be underdeveloped compared with control over the articulatory muscles, such as the tongue and lips, volitional control of which emerged earlier in primate evolution. Human participants imitated simple melodies by either singing (i.e. producing pitch with the larynx) or whistling (i.e. producing pitch with the lips and tongue). Sung notes were systematically biased towards each individual's habitual pitch, which we hypothesize may act to conserve muscular effort. Furthermore, while participants who sung more precisely also whistled more precisely, sung imitations were less precise than whistled imitations. The laryngeal muscles that control voice production are under less precise control than the oral muscles that are involved in whistling. This imprecision may be due to the relatively recent evolution of volitional laryngeal-motor control in humans, which may be tuned just well enough for the coarse modulation of vocal-pitch in speech.
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- Michel Belyk
- Bloorview Research Institute, 150 Kilgour Road, Toronto, CanadaM4G 1R8
- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human and Cognitive Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Mersov A, Cheyne D, Jobst C, De Nil L. A preliminary study on the neural oscillatory characteristics of motor preparation prior to dysfluent and fluent utterances in adults who stutter. JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS 2018; 55:145-155. [PMID: 28577876 DOI: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2017.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2016] [Revised: 04/14/2017] [Accepted: 05/14/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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PURPOSE Recent literature on speech production in adults who stutter (AWS) has begun to investigate the neural mechanisms characterizing speech-motor preparation prior to speech onset. Compelling evidence has suggested that stuttering is associated with atypical processing within cortical and sub-cortical motor networks, particularly in the beta frequency range, that is effective before speech production even begins. Due to low stuttering frequency in experimental settings, however, the literature has so far predominantly reported on fluent speech production in AWS. Consequently, we have limited understanding of the way in which fluent speech processing in AWS is disturbed leading to a dysfluency. This preliminary study aims to characterize neural motor preparation prior to stuttered utterances in AWS. METHODS Eight AWS participated in the study. A total of 336 stuttered utterances were compared to the participants' own fluent utterance productions. Beta oscillatory activity was analyzed with magnetoencephalography (MEG) and localized using minimum-variance beamforming. RESULTS Preparation for speech production induced beta suppression in the bilateral premotor and motor cortex prior to speech onset. Although the data revealed some interesting trends, no significant differences between fluent and stuttered utterances were present. This may be due to a relatively low and variable number of stuttered trials analyzed in individual subjects. CONCLUSION While the lack of significant differences may have resulted from the relatively low numbers of stuttered utterances across subjects, the observed trends demonstrated that the proposed methodology and experimental paradigm is a promising approach for future studies aiming to characterize differences between stuttered and fluent speech.
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- Anna Mersov
- Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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- Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada; Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W7, Canada
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- Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada
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- Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Carey D, Miquel ME, Evans BG, Adank P, McGettigan C. Vocal Tract Images Reveal Neural Representations of Sensorimotor Transformation During Speech Imitation. Cereb Cortex 2018; 27:3064-3079. [PMID: 28334401 PMCID: PMC5939209 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhx056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Imitating speech necessitates the transformation from sensory targets to vocal tract motor output, yet little is known about the representational basis of this process in the human brain. Here, we address this question by using real-time MR imaging (rtMRI) of the vocal tract and functional MRI (fMRI) of the brain in a speech imitation paradigm. Participants trained on imitating a native vowel and a similar nonnative vowel that required lip rounding. Later, participants imitated these vowels and an untrained vowel pair during separate fMRI and rtMRI runs. Univariate fMRI analyses revealed that regions including left inferior frontal gyrus were more active during sensorimotor transformation (ST) and production of nonnative vowels, compared with native vowels; further, ST for nonnative vowels activated somatomotor cortex bilaterally, compared with ST of native vowels. Using test representational similarity analysis (RSA) models constructed from participants’ vocal tract images and from stimulus formant distances, we found that RSA searchlight analyses of fMRI data showed either type of model could be represented in somatomotor, temporal, cerebellar, and hippocampal neural activation patterns during ST. We thus provide the first evidence of widespread and robust cortical and subcortical neural representation of vocal tract and/or formant parameters, during prearticulatory ST.
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- Daniel Carey
- Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, London TW20 0EX, UK.,Combined Universities Brain Imaging Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London, London TW20 0EX, UK.,The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Department of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary, University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK.,Clinical Physics, Barts Health NHS Trust, London EC1A 7BE, UK
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- Department of Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, London TW20 0EX, UK.,Combined Universities Brain Imaging Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London, London TW20 0EX, UK.,Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK
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New Developments in Understanding the Complexity of Human Speech Production. J Neurosci 2017; 36:11440-11448. [PMID: 27911747 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2424-16.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2016] [Revised: 09/20/2016] [Accepted: 09/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Speech is one of the most unique features of human communication. Our ability to articulate our thoughts by means of speech production depends critically on the integrity of the motor cortex. Long thought to be a low-order brain region, exciting work in the past years is overturning this notion. Here, we highlight some of major experimental advances in speech motor control research and discuss the emerging findings about the complexity of speech motocortical organization and its large-scale networks. This review summarizes the talks presented at a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience; it does not represent a comprehensive review of contemporary literature in the broader field of speech motor control.
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Rizio AA, Moyer KJ, Diaz MT. Neural evidence for phonologically based language production deficits in older adults: An fMRI investigation of age-related differences in picture-word interference. Brain Behav 2017; 7:e00660. [PMID: 28413708 PMCID: PMC5390840 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2016] [Revised: 12/21/2016] [Accepted: 01/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Older adults often show declines in phonological aspects of language production, particularly for low-frequency words, but maintain strong semantic systems. However, there are different theories about the mechanism that may underlie such age-related differences in language (e.g., age-related declines in transmission of activation or inhibition). METHODS This study used fMRI to investigate whether age-related differences in language production are associated with transmission deficits or inhibition deficits. We used the picture-word interference paradigm to examine age-related differences in picture naming as a function of both target frequency and the relationship between the target picture and distractor word. RESULTS We found that the presence of a categorically related distractor led to greater semantic elaboration by older adults compared to younger adults, as evidenced by older adults' increased recruitment of regions including the left middle frontal gyrus and bilateral precuneus. When presented with a phonologically related distractor, patterns of neural activation are consistent with previously observed age deficits in phonological processing, including age-related reductions in the recruitment of regions such as the left middle temporal gyrus and right supramarginal gyrus. Lastly, older, but not younger, adults show increased brain activation of the pre- and postcentral gyri as a function of decreasing target frequency when target pictures are paired with a phonological distractor, suggesting that cuing the phonology of the target disproportionately aids production of low-frequency items. CONCLUSIONS Overall, this pattern of results is generally consistent with the transmission deficit hypothesis, illustrating that links within the phonological system, but not the semantic system, are weakened with age.
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- Avery A Rizio
- Department of Psychology The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA USA
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- Department of Psychology The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA USA
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- Department of Psychology The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA USA
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Dissociating oral motor capabilities: Evidence from patients with movement disorders. Neuropsychologia 2017; 95:40-53. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2016] [Revised: 11/30/2016] [Accepted: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Staiger A, Schölderle T, Brendel B, Bötzel K, Ziegler W. Oral Motor Abilities Are Task Dependent: A Factor Analytic Approach to Performance Rate. J Mot Behav 2016; 49:482-493. [DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2016.1241747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- Anja Staiger
- Clinical Neuropsychology Research Group (EKN), Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
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- Clinical Neuropsychology Research Group (EKN), Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
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- Clinical Neuropsychology Research Group (EKN), Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
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Kleber B, Friberg A, Zeitouni A, Zatorre R. Experience-dependent modulation of right anterior insula and sensorimotor regions as a function of noise-masked auditory feedback in singers and nonsingers. Neuroimage 2016; 147:97-110. [PMID: 27916664 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.11.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Revised: 11/11/2016] [Accepted: 11/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Previous studies on vocal motor production in singing suggest that the right anterior insula (AI) plays a role in experience-dependent modulation of feedback integration. Specifically, when somatosensory input was reduced via anesthesia of the vocal fold mucosa, right AI activity was down regulated in trained singers. In the current fMRI study, we examined how masking of auditory feedback affects pitch-matching accuracy and corresponding brain activity in the same participants. We found that pitch-matching accuracy was unaffected by masking in trained singers yet declined in nonsingers. The corresponding brain region with the most differential and interesting activation pattern was the right AI, which was up regulated during masking in singers but down regulated in nonsingers. Likewise, its functional connectivity with inferior parietal, frontal, and voice-relevant sensorimotor areas was increased in singers yet decreased in nonsingers. These results indicate that singers relied more on somatosensory feedback, whereas nonsingers depended more critically on auditory feedback. When comparing auditory vs somatosensory feedback involvement, the right anterior insula emerged as the only region for correcting intended vocal output by modulating what is heard or felt as a function of singing experience. We propose the right anterior insula as a key node in the brain's singing network for the integration of signals of salience across multiple sensory and cognitive domains to guide vocal behavior.
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- Boris Kleber
- McGill University - Montreal Neurological Institute, Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Montreal, QC, Canada; International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound research (BRAMS), Montreal, QC, Canada; Institut für Medizinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurobiologie, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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- Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, MUHC-Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- McGill University - Montreal Neurological Institute, Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Montreal, QC, Canada; International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound research (BRAMS), Montreal, QC, Canada
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Mersov AM, Jobst C, Cheyne DO, De Nil L. Sensorimotor Oscillations Prior to Speech Onset Reflect Altered Motor Networks in Adults Who Stutter. Front Hum Neurosci 2016; 10:443. [PMID: 27642279 PMCID: PMC5009120 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2016] [Accepted: 08/19/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Adults who stutter (AWS) have demonstrated atypical coordination of motor and sensory regions during speech production. Yet little is known of the speech-motor network in AWS in the brief time window preceding audible speech onset. The purpose of the current study was to characterize neural oscillations in the speech-motor network during preparation for and execution of overt speech production in AWS using magnetoencephalography (MEG). Twelve AWS and 12 age-matched controls were presented with 220 words, each word embedded in a carrier phrase. Controls were presented with the same word list as their matched AWS participant. Neural oscillatory activity was localized using minimum-variance beamforming during two time periods of interest: speech preparation (prior to speech onset) and speech execution (following speech onset). Compared to controls, AWS showed stronger beta (15–25 Hz) suppression in the speech preparation stage, followed by stronger beta synchronization in the bilateral mouth motor cortex. AWS also recruited the right mouth motor cortex significantly earlier in the speech preparation stage compared to controls. Exaggerated motor preparation is discussed in the context of reduced coordination in the speech-motor network of AWS. It is further proposed that exaggerated beta synchronization may reflect a more strongly inhibited motor system that requires a stronger beta suppression to disengage prior to speech initiation. These novel findings highlight critical differences in the speech-motor network of AWS that occur prior to speech onset and emphasize the need to investigate further the speech-motor assembly in the stuttering population.
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- Anna-Maria Mersov
- Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of TorontoToronto, ON, Canada; Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children Research InstituteToronto, ON, Canada; Department of Medical Imaging, University of TorontoToronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada
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Keller C, Kell CA. Asymmetric intra- and interhemispheric interactions during covert and overt sentence reading. Neuropsychologia 2016; 93:448-465. [PMID: 27055948 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2015] [Revised: 04/01/2016] [Accepted: 04/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Covert and overt sentence reading evoke lateralized activations in overall bihemispheric networks. We assumed that the study of functional connectivity may reveal underlying principles of functional lateralization. Left-lateralized activations could relate to stronger reading-related modulation of intrahemispheric functional connectivity in the left than the right hemisphere. Alternatively, left-lateralization could result from suppression of contralateral processing and thus reflect asymmetric interhemispheric interactions. To address this issue, this functional MRI study investigated the regional lateralization of covert and overt German sentence reading in 39 healthy participants. Further, it revealed the modulation of the lateralized brain regions' functional connectivity and their contralateral homotopes by covert and overt reading (psychophysiological interactions). Left-lateralization during covert reading was associated with stronger intrahemispheric coupling particularly in the left dorsal stream rather than with suppression of contralateral processing. Lateralization during overt sentence reading instead went along with additional recruitment of right perisylvian cortices involved in articulation by asymmetric positive heterotopic interhemispheric interactions. Given the paucity of interhemispheric anti-correlations with homotopic regions, functional lateralization is likely a consequence of a task-dependent interplay between asymmetric positive intra- and interhemispheric coupling.
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- Christian Keller
- Brain Imaging Center and Department of Neurology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Brain Imaging Center and Department of Neurology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
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Joliot M, Tzourio-Mazoyer N, Mazoyer B. Intra-hemispheric intrinsic connectivity asymmetry and its relationships with handedness and language Lateralization. Neuropsychologia 2016; 93:437-447. [PMID: 26988116 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2015] [Revised: 02/11/2016] [Accepted: 03/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Asymmetry in intra-hemispheric intrinsic connectivity, and its association with handedness and hemispheric dominance for language, were investigated in a sample of 290 healthy volunteers enriched in left-handers (52.7%). From the resting-state FMRI data of each participant, we derived an intra-hemispheric intrinsic connectivity asymmetry (HICA) matrix as the difference between the left and right intra-hemispheric matrices of intrinsic correlation computed for each pair of the AICHA atlas ROIs. We defined a similarity measure between the HICA matrices of two individuals as the correlation coefficient of their corresponding elements, and computed for each individual an index of intra-hemispheric intrinsic connectivity asymmetry as the average similarity measure of his HICA matrix to those of the other subjects of the sample (HICAs). Gaussian-mixture modeling of the age-corrected HICAs sample distribution revealed that two types of HICA patterns were present, one (Typical_HICA) including 92.4% of the participants while the other (Atypical_HICA) included only 7.6% of them, mostly left-handers. In addition, we investigated the relationship between asymmetry in intra-hemispheric intrinsic connectivity and language hemispheric dominance, including a potential effect of handedness on this relationship, thanks to an FMRI acquisition during language production from which an hemispheric functional lateralization index for language (HFLI) and a type of hemispheric dominance for language, namely leftward, ambilateral, or rightward, were derived for each individual. There was a significant association between the types of language hemispheric dominance and of intra-hemispheric intrinsic connectivity asymmetry, occurrence of Atypical_HICAs individuals being very high in the group of individuals rightward-lateralized for language (80%), reduced in the ambilateral group (19%) and rare in individuals leftward-lateralized for language (less than 3%). Quantitatively, we found a significant positive linear relationship between the HICAs and HFLI indices, with an effect of handedness on the intercept but not on the slope of this relationship. These findings demonstrate that handedness and hemispheric dominance for language are significantly but independently associated with the asymmetry of intra-hemispheric intrinsic connectivity. These findings suggest that asymmetry in intra-hemispheric connectivity is a variable phenotype shaped in part by hemispheric lateralization for language, but possibly also depending on other lateralized functions.
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- M Joliot
- IMN, UMR 5293, GIN, CNRS, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; IMN, UMR 5293, GIN, Univ. Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; IMN, UMR 5293, GIN, CEA, F-33000 Bordeaux, France.
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- IMN, UMR 5293, GIN, CNRS, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; IMN, UMR 5293, GIN, Univ. Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; IMN, UMR 5293, GIN, CEA, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- IMN, UMR 5293, GIN, CNRS, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; IMN, UMR 5293, GIN, Univ. Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France; IMN, UMR 5293, GIN, CEA, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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Berthier ML, Dávila G, Moreno-Torres I, Beltrán-Corbellini Á, Santana-Moreno D, Roé-Vellvé N, Thurnhofer-Hemsi K, Torres-Prioris MJ, Massone MI, Ruiz-Cruces R. Loss of regional accent after damage to the speech production network. Front Hum Neurosci 2015; 9:610. [PMID: 26594161 PMCID: PMC4633569 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2015] [Accepted: 10/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Lesion-symptom mapping studies reveal that selective damage to one or more components of the speech production network can be associated with foreign accent syndrome, changes in regional accent (e.g., from Parisian accent to Alsatian accent), stronger regional accent, or re-emergence of a previously learned and dormant regional accent. Here, we report loss of regional accent after rapidly regressive Broca's aphasia in three Argentinean patients who had suffered unilateral or bilateral focal lesions in components of the speech production network. All patients were monolingual speakers with three different native Spanish accents (Cordobés or central, Guaranítico or northeast, and Bonaerense). Samples of speech production from the patient with native Córdoba accent were compared with previous recordings of his voice, whereas data from the patient with native Guaranítico accent were compared with speech samples from one healthy control matched for age, gender, and native accent. Speech samples from the patient with native Buenos Aires's accent were compared with data obtained from four healthy control subjects with the same accent. Analysis of speech production revealed discrete slowing in speech rate, inappropriate long pauses, and monotonous intonation. Phonemic production remained similar to those of healthy Spanish speakers, but phonetic variants peculiar to each accent (e.g., intervocalic aspiration of /s/ in Córdoba accent) were absent. While basic normal prosodic features of Spanish prosody were preserved, features intrinsic to melody of certain geographical areas (e.g., rising end F0 excursion in declarative sentences intoned with Córdoba accent) were absent. All patients were also unable to produce sentences with different emotional prosody. Brain imaging disclosed focal left hemisphere lesions involving the middle part of the motor cortex, the post-central cortex, the posterior inferior and/or middle frontal cortices, insula, anterior putamen and supplementary motor area. Our findings suggest that lesions affecting the middle part of the left motor cortex and other components of the speech production network disrupt neural processes involved in the production of regional accent features.
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- Marcelo L. Berthier
- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit and Cathedra Foundation Morera and Vallejo of Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, University of MalagaMalaga, Spain
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- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit and Cathedra Foundation Morera and Vallejo of Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, University of MalagaMalaga, Spain
- Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of MalagaMalaga, Spain
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- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit and Cathedra Foundation Morera and Vallejo of Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, University of MalagaMalaga, Spain
- Department of Spanish Language I, University of MalagaMalaga, Spain
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- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit and Cathedra Foundation Morera and Vallejo of Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, University of MalagaMalaga, Spain
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- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit and Cathedra Foundation Morera and Vallejo of Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, University of MalagaMalaga, Spain
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- Molecular Imaging Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, General Foundation of the University of MalagaMalaga, Spain
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- Molecular Imaging Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, General Foundation of the University of MalagaMalaga, Spain
- Department of Applied Mathematics, Superior Technical School of Engineering in Informatics, University of MalagaMalaga, Spain
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- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit and Cathedra Foundation Morera and Vallejo of Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, University of MalagaMalaga, Spain
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Antropología Filosófica y Cultural, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasBuenos Aires, Argentina
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- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit and Cathedra Foundation Morera and Vallejo of Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, University of MalagaMalaga, Spain
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Kent RD. Nonspeech Oral Movements and Oral Motor Disorders: A Narrative Review. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY 2015; 24:763-89. [PMID: 26126128 PMCID: PMC4698470 DOI: 10.1044/2015_ajslp-14-0179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2014] [Revised: 04/02/2015] [Accepted: 06/13/2015] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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PURPOSE Speech and other oral functions such as swallowing have been compared and contrasted with oral behaviors variously labeled quasispeech, paraspeech, speechlike, and nonspeech, all of which overlap to some degree in neural control, muscles deployed, and movements performed. Efforts to understand the relationships among these behaviors are hindered by the lack of explicit and widely accepted definitions. This review article offers definitions and taxonomies for nonspeech oral movements and for diverse speaking tasks, both overt and covert. METHOD Review of the literature included searches of Medline, Google Scholar, HighWire Press, and various online sources. Search terms pertained to speech, quasispeech, paraspeech, speechlike, and nonspeech oral movements. Searches also were carried out for associated terms in oral biology, craniofacial physiology, and motor control. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Nonspeech movements have a broad spectrum of clinical applications, including developmental speech and language disorders, motor speech disorders, feeding and swallowing difficulties, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, trismus, and tardive stereotypies. The role and benefit of nonspeech oral movements are controversial in many oral motor disorders. It is argued that the clinical value of these movements can be elucidated through careful definitions and task descriptions such as those proposed in this review article.
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- Ray D. Kent
- Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Liégeois FJ, Butler J, Morgan AT, Clayden JD, Clark CA. Anatomy and lateralization of the human corticobulbar tracts: an fMRI-guided tractography study. Brain Struct Funct 2015; 221:3337-45. [PMID: 26411871 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-015-1104-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2014] [Accepted: 08/27/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The left hemisphere lateralization bias for language functions, such as syntactic processing and semantic retrieval, is well known. Although several theories and clinical data indicate a link between speech motor execution and language, the functional and structural brain lateralization for these functions has never been examined concomitantly in the same individuals. Here, we used functional MRI during rapid silent syllable repetition (/lalala/, /papapa/ and /pataka/, known as oral diadochokinesis or DDK) to map the cortical representation of the articulators in 17 healthy adults. In these same participants, functional lateralization for language production was assessed using the well-established verb generation task. We then used DDK-related fMRI activation clusters to guide tractography of the corticobulbar tract from diffusion-weighted MRI. Functional MRI revealed a wide inter-individual variability of hemispheric asymmetry patterns (left and right dominant, as well as bilateral) for DDK in the motor cortex, despite predominantly left hemisphere dominance for language-related activity in Broca's area. Tractography revealed no evidence for structural asymmetry (based on fractional anisotropy) within the corticobulbar tract. To our knowledge, this study is the first to reveal that motor brain activation for syllable repetition is unrelated to functional asymmetry for language production in adult humans. In addition, we found no evidence that the human corticobulbar tract is an asymmetric white matter pathway. We suggest that the predominance of dysarthria following left hemisphere infarct is probably a consequence of disrupted feedback or input from left hemisphere language and speech planning regions, rather than structural asymmetry of the corticobulbar tract itself.
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- Frédérique J Liégeois
- Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatry Section, University College London Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N1EH, UK.
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- Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatry Section, University College London Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N1EH, UK
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- Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.,Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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- Developmental Imaging and Biophysics Section, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, UK
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- Developmental Imaging and Biophysics Section, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, UK
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Breshears JD, Molinaro AM, Chang EF. A probabilistic map of the human ventral sensorimotor cortex using electrical stimulation. J Neurosurg 2015; 123:340-9. [DOI: 10.3171/2014.11.jns14889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The human ventral sensorimotor cortex (vSMC) is involved in facial expression, mastication, and swallowing, as well as the dynamic and highly coordinated movements of human speech production. However, vSMC organization remains poorly understood, and previously published population-driven maps of its somatotopy do not accurately reflect the variability across individuals in a quantitative, probabilistic fashion. The goal of this study was to describe the responses to electrical stimulation of the vSMC, generate probabilistic maps of function in the vSMC, and quantify the variability across individuals.
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Photographic, video, and stereotactic MRI data of intraoperative electrical stimulation of the vSMC were collected for 33 patients undergoing awake craniotomy. Stimulation sites were converted to a 2D coordinate system based on anatomical landmarks. Motor, sensory, and speech stimulation responses were reviewed and classified. Probabilistic maps of stimulation responses were generated, and spatial variance was quantified.
RESULTS
In 33 patients, the authors identified 194 motor, 212 sensory, 61 speech-arrest, and 27 mixed responses. Responses were complex, stereotyped, and mostly nonphysiological movements, involving hand, orofacial, and laryngeal musculature. Within individuals, the presence of oral movement representations varied; however, the dorsal-ventral order was always preserved. The most robust motor responses were jaw (probability 0.85), tongue (0.64), lips (0.58), and throat (0.52). Vocalizations were seen in 6 patients (0.18), more dorsally near lip and dorsal throat areas. Sensory responses were spatially dispersed; however, patients' subjective reports were highly precise in localization within the mouth. The most robust responses included tongue (0.82) and lips (0.42). The probability of speech arrest was 0.85, highest 15–20 mm anterior to the central sulcus and just dorsal to the sylvian fissure, in the anterior precentral gyrus or pars opercularis.
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The authors report probabilistic maps of function in the human vSMC based on intraoperative cortical electrical stimulation. These results define the expected range of mapping outcomes in the vSMC of a single individual and shed light on the functional organization of the vSMC supporting speech motor control and nonspeech functions.
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- Departments of 1Neurological Surgery,
- 3Physiology, and
- 4Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco; and
- 5Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses, University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, California
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Skipper JI. Echoes of the spoken past: how auditory cortex hears context during speech perception. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2015; 369:20130297. [PMID: 25092665 PMCID: PMC4123676 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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What do we hear when someone speaks and what does auditory cortex (AC) do with that sound? Given how meaningful speech is, it might be hypothesized that AC is most active when other people talk so that their productions get decoded. Here, neuroimaging meta-analyses show the opposite: AC is least active and sometimes deactivated when participants listened to meaningful speech compared to less meaningful sounds. Results are explained by an active hypothesis-and-test mechanism where speech production (SP) regions are neurally re-used to predict auditory objects associated with available context. By this model, more AC activity for less meaningful sounds occurs because predictions are less successful from context, requiring further hypotheses be tested. This also explains the large overlap of AC co-activity for less meaningful sounds with meta-analyses of SP. An experiment showed a similar pattern of results for non-verbal context. Specifically, words produced less activity in AC and SP regions when preceded by co-speech gestures that visually described those words compared to those words without gestures. Results collectively suggest that what we ‘hear’ during real-world speech perception may come more from the brain than our ears and that the function of AC is to confirm or deny internal predictions about the identity of sounds.
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- Jeremy I Skipper
- Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, Institute for Multimodal Communication, University College London, London, WC1H 0AP, UK
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New AB, Robin DA, Parkinson AL, Duffy JR, McNeil MR, Piguet O, Hornberger M, Price CJ, Eickhoff SB, Ballard KJ. Altered resting-state network connectivity in stroke patients with and without apraxia of speech. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2015; 8:429-39. [PMID: 26106568 PMCID: PMC4473263 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2014] [Revised: 03/16/2015] [Accepted: 03/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Motor speech disorders, including apraxia of speech (AOS), account for over 50% of the communication disorders following stroke. Given its prevalence and impact, and the need to understand its neural mechanisms, we used resting state functional MRI to examine functional connectivity within a network of regions previously hypothesized as being associated with AOS (bilateral anterior insula (aINS), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), and ventral premotor cortex (PM)) in a group of 32 left hemisphere stroke patients and 18 healthy, age-matched controls. Two expert clinicians rated severity of AOS, dysarthria and nonverbal oral apraxia of the patients. Fifteen individuals were categorized as AOS and 17 were AOS-absent. Comparison of connectivity in patients with and without AOS demonstrated that AOS patients had reduced connectivity between bilateral PM, and this reduction correlated with the severity of AOS impairment. In addition, AOS patients had negative connectivity between the left PM and right aINS and this effect decreased with increasing severity of non-verbal oral apraxia. These results highlight left PM involvement in AOS, begin to differentiate its neural mechanisms from those of other motor impairments following stroke, and help inform us of the neural mechanisms driving differences in speech motor planning and programming impairment following stroke.
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- Anneliese B New
- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA ; Department of Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA ; Joint Program in Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA ; Honors College, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA ; Department of Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh and Veterans Administration, Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Australia and University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW,Australia
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- Neuroscience Research Australia and University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW,Australia
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Julich, Julich, Germany ; Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Neuroscience Research Australia and University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW,Australia ; Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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Ozaki I, Kurata K. The effects of voluntary control of respiration on the excitability of the primary motor hand area, evaluated by end-tidal CO2 monitoring. Clin Neurophysiol 2015; 126:2162-9. [PMID: 25698305 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.12.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2014] [Revised: 12/29/2014] [Accepted: 12/31/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of voluntary deep breathing on the excitability of the hand area in the primary motor cortex (M1). METHODS We applied near-threshold transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over M1 during the early phase of inspiration or expiration in both normal automatic and voluntary deep, but not "forced", breathing in eight healthy participants at rest. We monitored exhaled CO2 levels continuously, and recorded motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) simultaneously from the abductor pollicis brevis, first dorsal interosseous, abductor digiti minimi, flexor digitorum superficialis, and extensor incidis muscles. RESULTS We observed that, during voluntary deep breathing, MEP amplitude increased by up to 50% for all recorded muscles and the latency of MEPs decreased by approximately 1ms, compared with normal automatic breathing. We found no difference in the amplitude or latency of MEPs between inspiratory and expiratory phases in either normal automatic or voluntary deep breathing. CONCLUSIONS Voluntary deep breathing at rest facilitates MEPs following TMS over the hand area of M1, and MEP enhancement occurs throughout the full respiratory cycle. SIGNIFICANCE The M1 hand region is continuously driven by top-down neural signals over the entire respiratory cycle of voluntary deep breathing.
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- Isamu Ozaki
- Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aomori University of Health and Welfare, 58-1 Mase, Hamadate, Aomori 030-8505, Japan.
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- Department of Physiology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu-cho, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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Olivier G, Bottineau D. Gestural Dimension of the Perceptuomotor Compatibility Effect in the Speech Domain. SWISS JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 2015. [DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185/a000153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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This behavioral study shows for the first time that the auditory perception of vowels influences silent labial responses. During a perceptual decision task, participants were instructed to choose and execute a silent labial response (lip protrusion versus chin lowering) as quickly as possible depending on the vowel they had perceived auditorily. The main result showed that gestural compatibility between the silent labial response and the articulation of the perceived vowel led to better performance (in terms of response times and errors) than an incompatibility between them. By including a somatic compatibility effect in a more dynamic gestural compatibility effect, this new result suggests that the role of motor activity during speech auditory perception lies in mentally simulating an articulation of the perceived phoneme.
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- Gérard Olivier
- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits Cultures et Sociétés, University of Nice, France
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- Laboratoire MoDyCo, CNRS, University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre, France
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Electroencephalographic evidence for a respiratory-related cortical activity specific of the preparation of prephonatory breaths. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2014; 204:64-70. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2014.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2014] [Revised: 06/25/2014] [Accepted: 06/26/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Control of spoken vowel acoustics and the influence of phonetic context in human speech sensorimotor cortex. J Neurosci 2014; 34:12662-77. [PMID: 25232105 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1219-14.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Speech production requires the precise control of vocal tract movements to generate individual speech sounds (phonemes) which, in turn, are rapidly organized into complex sequences. Multiple productions of the same phoneme can exhibit substantial variability, some of which is inherent to control of the vocal tract and its biomechanics, and some of which reflects the contextual effects of surrounding phonemes ("coarticulation"). The role of the CNS in these aspects of speech motor control is not well understood. To address these issues, we recorded multielectrode cortical activity directly from human ventral sensory-motor cortex (vSMC) during the production of consonant-vowel syllables. We analyzed the relationship between the acoustic parameters of vowels (pitch and formants) and cortical activity on a single-trial level. We found that vSMC activity robustly predicted acoustic parameters across vowel categories (up to 80% of variance), as well as different renditions of the same vowel (up to 25% of variance). Furthermore, we observed significant contextual effects on vSMC representations of produced phonemes that suggest active control of coarticulation: vSMC representations for vowels were biased toward the representations of the preceding consonant, and conversely, representations for consonants were biased toward upcoming vowels. These results reveal that vSMC activity for phonemes are not invariant and provide insight into the cortical mechanisms of coarticulation.
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Heschl’s gyrification pattern is related to speech-listening hemispheric lateralization: FMRI investigation in 281 healthy volunteers. Brain Struct Funct 2014; 220:1585-99. [PMID: 24638878 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0746-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2013] [Accepted: 02/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Cai S, Tourville JA, Beal DS, Perkell JS, Guenther FH, Ghosh SS. Diffusion imaging of cerebral white matter in persons who stutter: evidence for network-level anomalies. Front Hum Neurosci 2014; 8:54. [PMID: 24611042 PMCID: PMC3920071 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2013] [Accepted: 01/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Deficits in brain white matter have been a main focus of recent neuroimaging studies on stuttering. However, no prior study has examined brain connectivity on the global level of the cerebral cortex in persons who stutter (PWS). In the current study, we analyzed the results from probabilistic tractography between regions comprising the cortical speech network. An anatomical parcellation scheme was used to define 28 speech production-related ROIs in each hemisphere. We used network-based statistic (NBS) and graph theory to analyze the connectivity patterns obtained from tractography. At the network-level, the probabilistic corticocortical connectivity from the PWS group were significantly weaker than that from persons with fluent speech (PFS). NBS analysis revealed significant components in the bilateral speech networks with negative correlations with stuttering severity. To facilitate comparison with previous studies, we also performed tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) and regional fractional anisotropy (FA) averaging. Results from tractography, TBSS and regional FA averaging jointly highlight the importance of several regions in the left peri-Rolandic sensorimotor and premotor areas, most notably the left ventral premotor cortex (vPMC) and middle primary motor cortex, in the neuroanatomical basis of stuttering.
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- Shanqing Cai
- Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston UniversityBoston, MA, USA
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- Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston UniversityBoston, MA, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and the Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of AlbertaEdmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston UniversityBoston, MA, USA
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- Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston UniversityBoston, MA, USA
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA, USA
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Raux M, Tyvaert L, Ferreira M, Kindler F, Bardinet E, Karachi C, Morelot-Panzini C, Gotman J, Pike GB, Koski L, Similowski T. Functional magnetic resonance imaging suggests automatization of the cortical response to inspiratory threshold loading in humans. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2013; 189:571-80. [PMID: 23994177 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2013.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2013] [Revised: 08/13/2013] [Accepted: 08/14/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Inspiratory threshold loading (ITL) induces cortical activation. It is sustained over time and is resistant to distraction, suggesting automaticity. We hypothesized that ITL-induced changes in cerebral activation may differ between single-breath ITL and continuous ITL, with differences resembling those observed after cortical automatization of motor tasks. We analyzed the brain blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal of 11 naive healthy volunteers during 5 min of random, single-breath ITL and 5 min of continuous ITL. Single-breath ITL increased BOLD in many areas (premotor cortices, bilateral insula, cerebellum, reticular formation of the lateral mesencephalon) and decreased BOLD in regions co-localizing with the default mode network. Continuous ITL induced signal changes in a limited number of areas (supplementary motor area). These differences are comparable to those observed before and after overlearning of motor tasks. We conclude that the respiratory-related cortical activation observed in response to ITL is likely due to automated, attention-independent mechanisms. Also, ITL activates cortical circuits right from the first breath.
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- Mathieu Raux
- Department of Experimental Medicine, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Laboratory McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada; Université Paris 6, ER10UPMC Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique, Paris, France; Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Département d'Anesthésie Réanimation, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Morgan AT, Masterton R, Pigdon L, Connelly A, Liégeois FJ. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of chronic dysarthric speech after childhood brain injury: reliance on a left-hemisphere compensatory network. Brain 2013; 136:646-57. [DOI: 10.1093/brain/aws355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Tomasino B, Marin D, Maieron M, Ius T, Budai R, Fabbro F, Skrap M. Foreign accent syndrome: A multimodal mapping study. Cortex 2013; 49:18-39. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2011] [Revised: 09/07/2011] [Accepted: 10/19/2011] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Recent studies have provided evidence for sensory-motor adaptive changes and action goal coding of visually guided manual action in premotor and posterior parietal cortices. To extend these results to orofacial actions, devoid of auditory and visual feedback, we used a repetition suppression paradigm while measuring neural activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging during repeated intransitive and silent lip, jaw and tongue movements. In the motor domain, this paradigm refers to decreased activity in specific neural populations due to repeated motor acts and has been proposed to reflect sensory-motor adaptation. Orofacial movements activated a set of largely overlapping, common brain areas forming a core neural network classically involved in orofacial motor control. Crucially, suppressed neural responses during repeated orofacial actions were specifically observed in the left ventral premotor cortex, the intraparietal sulcus, the inferior parietal lobule and the superior parietal lobule. Since no visual and auditory feedback were provided during orofacial actions, these results suggest somatosensory-motor adaptive control of intransitive and silent orofacial actions in these premotor and parietal regions.
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Hayen A, Herigstad M, Kelly M, Okell TW, Murphy K, Wise RG, Pattinson KTS. The effects of altered intrathoracic pressure on resting cerebral blood flow and its response to visual stimulation. Neuroimage 2012; 66:479-88. [PMID: 23108273 PMCID: PMC3547172 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2012] [Revised: 10/04/2012] [Accepted: 10/06/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Investigating how intrathoracic pressure changes affect cerebral blood flow (CBF) is important for a clear interpretation of neuroimaging data in patients with abnormal respiratory physiology, intensive care patients receiving mechanical ventilation and in research paradigms that manipulate intrathoracic pressure. Here, we investigated the effect of experimentally increased and decreased intrathoracic pressures upon CBF and the stimulus-evoked CBF response to visual stimulation. Twenty healthy volunteers received intermittent inspiratory and expiratory loads (plus or minus 9cmH2O for 270s) and viewed an intermittent 2Hz flashing checkerboard, while maintaining stable end-tidal CO2. CBF was recorded with transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD) and whole-brain pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging (PCASL MRI). Application of inspiratory loading (negative intrathoracic pressure) showed an increase in TCD-measured CBF of 4% and a PCASL-measured increase in grey matter CBF of 5%, but did not alter mean arterial pressure (MAP). Expiratory loading (positive intrathoracic pressure) did not alter CBF, while MAP increased by 3%. Neither loading condition altered the perfusion response to visual stimulation in the primary visual cortex. In both loading conditions localized CBF increases were observed in the somatosensory and motor cortices, and in the cerebellum. Altered intrathoracic pressures, whether induced experimentally, therapeutically or through a disease process, have possible significant effects on CBF and should be considered as a potential systematic confound in the interpretation of perfusion-based neuroimaging data.
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- Anja Hayen
- Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics and Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.
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- Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics and Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.
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- Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics and Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.
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- Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics and Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Park Place, CF10 3AT, Cardiff, UK.
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Park Place, CF10 3AT, Cardiff, UK.
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- Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics and Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.
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Grabski K, Lamalle L, Vilain C, Schwartz JL, Vallée N, Tropres I, Baciu M, Le Bas JF, Sato M. Functional MRI assessment of orofacial articulators: neural correlates of lip, jaw, larynx, and tongue movements. Hum Brain Mapp 2012; 33:2306-21. [PMID: 21826760 PMCID: PMC6870116 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2010] [Revised: 04/01/2011] [Accepted: 04/26/2011] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Compared with complex coordinated orofacial actions, few neuroimaging studies have attempted to determine the shared and distinct neural substrates of supralaryngeal and laryngeal articulatory movements when performed independently. To determine cortical and subcortical regions associated with supralaryngeal motor control, participants produced lip, tongue and jaw movements while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). For laryngeal motor activity, participants produced the steady-state/i/vowel. A sparse temporal sampling acquisition method was used to minimize movement-related artifacts. Three main findings were observed. First, the four tasks activated a set of largely overlapping, common brain areas: the sensorimotor and premotor cortices, the right inferior frontal gyrus, the supplementary motor area, the left parietal operculum and the adjacent inferior parietal lobule, the basal ganglia and the cerebellum. Second, differences between tasks were restricted to the bilateral auditory cortices and to the left ventrolateral sensorimotor cortex, with greater signal intensity for vowel vocalization. Finally, a dorso-ventral somatotopic organization of lip, jaw, vocalic/laryngeal, and tongue movements was observed within the primary motor and somatosensory cortices using individual region-of-interest (ROI) analyses. These results provide evidence for a core neural network involved in laryngeal and supralaryngeal motor control and further refine the sensorimotor somatotopic organization of orofacial articulators.
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- Krystyna Grabski
- Gipsa-Lab, Département Parole & Cognition, UMR CNRS 5216, Grenoble Universités, France.
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Möttönen R, Watkins KE. Using TMS to study the role of the articulatory motor system in speech perception. APHASIOLOGY 2012; 26:1103-1118. [PMID: 22942513 PMCID: PMC3431548 DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2011.619515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Background: The ability to communicate using speech is a remarkable skill, which requires precise coordination of articulatory movements and decoding of complex acoustic signals. According to the traditional view, speech production and perception rely on motor and auditory brain areas, respectively. However, there is growing evidence that auditory-motor circuits support both speech production and perception.Aims: In this article we provide a review of how transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been used to investigate the excitability of the motor system during listening to speech and the contribution of the motor system to performance in various speech perception tasks. We also discuss how TMS can be used in combination with brain-imaging techniques to study interactions between motor and auditory systems during speech perception.Main contribution: TMS has proven to be a powerful tool to investigate the role of the articulatory motor system in speech perception.Conclusions: TMS studies have provided support for the view that the motor structures that control the movements of the articulators contribute not only to speech production but also to speech perception.
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- Riikka Möttönen
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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