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Coughler C, Quinn de Launay KL, Purcell DW, Oram Cardy J, Beal DS. Pediatric Responses to Fundamental and Formant Frequency Altered Auditory Feedback: A Scoping Review. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:858863. [PMID: 35664350 PMCID: PMC9157279 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.858863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Purpose The ability to hear ourselves speak has been shown to play an important role in the development and maintenance of fluent and coherent speech. Despite this, little is known about the developing speech motor control system throughout childhood, in particular if and how vocal and articulatory control may differ throughout development. A scoping review was undertaken to identify and describe the full range of studies investigating responses to frequency altered auditory feedback in pediatric populations and their contributions to our understanding of the development of auditory feedback control and sensorimotor learning in childhood and adolescence. Method Relevant studies were identified through a comprehensive search strategy of six academic databases for studies that included (a) real-time perturbation of frequency in auditory input, (b) an analysis of immediate effects on speech, and (c) participants aged 18 years or younger. Results Twenty-three articles met inclusion criteria. Across studies, there was a wide variety of designs, outcomes and measures used. Manipulations included fundamental frequency (9 studies), formant frequency (12), frequency centroid of fricatives (1), and both fundamental and formant frequencies (1). Study designs included contrasts across childhood, between children and adults, and between typical, pediatric clinical and adult populations. Measures primarily explored acoustic properties of speech responses (latency, magnitude, and variability). Some studies additionally examined the association of these acoustic responses with clinical measures (e.g., stuttering severity and reading ability), and neural measures using electrophysiology and magnetic resonance imaging. Conclusion Findings indicated that children above 4 years generally compensated in the opposite direction of the manipulation, however, in several cases not as effectively as adults. Overall, results varied greatly due to the broad range of manipulations and designs used, making generalization challenging. Differences found between age groups in the features of the compensatory vocal responses, latency of responses, vocal variability and perceptual abilities, suggest that maturational changes may be occurring in the speech motor control system, affecting the extent to which auditory feedback is used to modify internal sensorimotor representations. Varied findings suggest vocal control develops prior to articulatory control. Future studies with multiple outcome measures, manipulations, and more expansive age ranges are needed to elucidate findings.
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Affiliation(s)
- Caitlin Coughler
- Graduate Program in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
- *Correspondence: Caitlin Coughler,
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- Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
- National Centre for Audiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
- National Centre for Audiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Cheung ST, Thompson K, Chen JL, Yunusova Y, Beal DS. Response patterns to vowel formant perturbations in children. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2021; 150:2647. [PMID: 34717445 DOI: 10.1121/10.0006567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Auditory feedback is an important component of speech motor control, but its precise role in developing speech is less understood. The role of auditory feedback in development was probed by perturbing the speech of children 4-9 years old. The vowel sound /ɛ/ was shifted to /æ/ in real time and presented to participants as their own auditory feedback. Analyses of the resultant formant magnitude changes in the participants' speech indicated that children compensated and adapted by adjusting their formants to oppose the perturbation. Older and younger children responded to perturbation differently in F1 and F2. The compensatory change in F1 was greater for younger children, whereas the increase in F2 was greater for older children. Adaptation aftereffects were observed in both groups. Exploratory directional analyses in the two-dimensional formant space indicated that older children responded more directly and less variably to the perturbation than younger children, shifting their vowels back toward the vowel sound /ɛ/ to oppose the perturbation. Findings support the hypothesis that auditory feedback integration continues to develop between the ages of 4 and 9 years old such that the differences in the adaptive and compensatory responses arise between younger and older children despite receiving the same auditory feedback perturbation.
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- Stephanie T Cheung
- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, M4G 1R8, Canada
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- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, M4G 1R8, Canada
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- Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2W6, Canada
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- Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1V7, Canada
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- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, M4G 1R8, Canada
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Patel SP, Kim JH, Larson CR, Losh M. Mechanisms of voice control related to prosody in autism spectrum disorder and first-degree relatives. Autism Res 2019; 12:1192-1210. [PMID: 31187944 PMCID: PMC6771711 DOI: 10.1002/aur.2156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Differences in prosody (e.g., intonation, rhythm) are among the most obvious language-related impairments in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and significantly impact communication. Subtle prosodic differences have also been identified in a subset of clinically unaffected first-degree relatives of individuals with ASD, and may reflect genetic liability to ASD. This study investigated the neural basis of prosodic differences in ASD and first-degree relatives through analysis of feedforward and feedback control involved in the planning, production, self-monitoring, and self-correction of speech by using a pitch-perturbed auditory feedback paradigm during sustained vowel and speech production. Results revealed larger vocal response magnitudes to pitch-perturbed auditory feedback across tasks in ASD and ASD parent groups, with differences in sustained vowel production driven by parents who displayed subclinical personality and language features associated with ASD (i.e., broad autism phenotype). Both ASD and ASD parent groups exhibited increased response onset latencies during sustained vowel production, while the ASD parent group exhibited decreased response onset latencies during speech production. Vocal response magnitudes across tasks were associated with prosodic atypicalities in both individuals with ASD and their parents. Exploratory event-related potential (ERP) analyses in a subgroup of participants during the sustained vowel task revealed reduced P1 ERP amplitudes in the ASD group, with similar trends observed in parents. Overall, results suggest underdeveloped feedforward systems and neural attenuation in detecting audio-vocal feedback may contribute to ASD-related prosodic atypicalities. Importantly, results implicate atypical audio-vocal integration as a marker of genetic risk to ASD, evident in ASD and among clinically unaffected relatives. Autism Res 2019, 12: 1192-1210. © 2019 The Authors. Autism Research published by International Society for Autism Research published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. LAY SUMMARY: Previous research has identified atypicalities in prosody (e.g., intonation) in individuals with ASD and a subset of their first-degree relatives. In order to better understand the mechanisms underlying prosodic differences in ASD, this study examined how individuals with ASD and their parents responded to unexpected differences in what they heard themselves say to modify control of their voice (i.e., audio-vocal integration). Results suggest that disruptions to audio-vocal integration in individuals with ASD contribute to ASD-related prosodic atypicalities, and the more subtle differences observed in parents could reflect underlying genetic liability to ASD.
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- Shivani P. Patel
- Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and DisordersNorthwestern UniversityEvanstonIllinois
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- Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and DisordersNorthwestern UniversityEvanstonIllinois
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- Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and DisordersNorthwestern UniversityEvanstonIllinois
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- Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and DisordersNorthwestern UniversityEvanstonIllinois
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Li J, Hu H, Chen N, Jones JA, Wu D, Liu P, Liu H. Aging and Sex Influence Cortical Auditory-Motor Integration for Speech Control. Front Neurosci 2018; 12:749. [PMID: 30386204 PMCID: PMC6199396 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 09/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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It is well known that acoustic change in speech production is subject to age-related declines. How aging alters cortical sensorimotor integration in speech control, however, remains poorly understood. The present event-related potential study examined the behavioral and neural effects of aging and sex on the auditory-motor processing of voice pitch errors. Behaviorally, older adults produced significantly larger vocal compensations for pitch perturbations than young adults across the sexes, while the effects of sex on vocal compensation did not exist for both young and older adults. At the cortical level, there was a significant interaction between aging and sex on the N1-P2 complex. Older males produced significantly smaller P2 amplitudes than young males, while young males produced significantly larger N1 and P2 amplitudes than young females. In addition, females produced faster N1 responses than males regardless of age, while young adults produced faster P2 responses than older adults across the sexes. These findings provide the first neurobehavioral evidence that demonstrates the aging influence on auditory feedback control of speech production, and highlight the importance of sex in understanding the aging of the neuromotor control of speech production.
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- Jingting Li
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Work Injury Rehabilitation Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Psychology and Laurier Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.,Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Guo Z, Huang X, Wang M, Jones JA, Dai Z, Li W, Liu P, Liu H. Regional homogeneity of intrinsic brain activity correlates with auditory-motor processing of vocal pitch errors. Neuroimage 2016; 142:565-575. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2016] [Revised: 07/28/2016] [Accepted: 08/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Alters Auditory-motor Integration For Voice Control. Sci Rep 2016; 6:28909. [PMID: 27356768 PMCID: PMC4928116 DOI: 10.1038/srep28909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2015] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common drug-refractory focal epilepsy in adults. Previous research has shown that patients with TLE exhibit decreased performance in listening to speech sounds and deficits in the cortical processing of auditory information. Whether TLE compromises auditory-motor integration for voice control, however, remains largely unknown. To address this question, event-related potentials (ERPs) and vocal responses to vocal pitch errors (1/2 or 2 semitones upward) heard in auditory feedback were compared across 28 patients with TLE and 28 healthy controls. Patients with TLE produced significantly larger vocal responses but smaller P2 responses than healthy controls. Moreover, patients with TLE exhibited a positive correlation between vocal response magnitude and baseline voice variability and a negative correlation between P2 amplitude and disease duration. Graphical network analyses revealed a disrupted neuronal network for patients with TLE with a significant increase of clustering coefficients and path lengths as compared to healthy controls. These findings provide strong evidence that TLE is associated with an atypical integration of the auditory and motor systems for vocal pitch regulation, and that the functional networks that support the auditory-motor processing of pitch feedback errors differ between patients with TLE and healthy controls.
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Scheerer NE, Jacobson DS, Jones JA. Sensorimotor learning in children and adults: Exposure to frequency-altered auditory feedback during speech production. Neuroscience 2016; 314:106-15. [PMID: 26628403 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.11.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2015] [Revised: 11/13/2015] [Accepted: 11/18/2015] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Auditory feedback plays an important role in the acquisition of fluent speech; however, this role may change once speech is acquired and individuals no longer experience persistent developmental changes to the brain and vocal tract. For this reason, we investigated whether the role of auditory feedback in sensorimotor learning differs across children and adult speakers. Participants produced vocalizations while they heard their vocal pitch predictably or unpredictably shifted downward one semitone. The participants' vocal pitches were measured at the beginning of each vocalization, before auditory feedback was available, to assess the extent to which the deviant auditory feedback modified subsequent speech motor commands. Sensorimotor learning was observed in both children and adults, with participants' initial vocal pitch increasing following trials where they were exposed to predictable, but not unpredictable, frequency-altered feedback. Participants' vocal pitch was also measured across each vocalization, to index the extent to which the deviant auditory feedback was used to modify ongoing vocalizations. While both children and adults were found to increase their vocal pitch following predictable and unpredictable changes to their auditory feedback, adults produced larger compensatory responses. The results of the current study demonstrate that both children and adults rapidly integrate information derived from their auditory feedback to modify subsequent speech motor commands. However, these results also demonstrate that children and adults differ in their ability to use auditory feedback to generate compensatory vocal responses during ongoing vocalization. Since vocal variability also differed across the children and adult groups, these results also suggest that compensatory vocal responses to frequency-altered feedback manipulations initiated at vocalization onset may be modulated by vocal variability.
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- N E Scheerer
- Psychology Department, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Laurier Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Psychology Department, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Laurier Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Psychology Department, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Laurier Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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Scheerer NE, Liu H, Jones JA. The developmental trajectory of vocal and event-related potential responses to frequency-altered auditory feedback. Eur J Neurosci 2013; 38:3189-200. [DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2013] [Revised: 05/30/2013] [Accepted: 06/09/2013] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Nichole E. Scheerer
- Psychology Department and Laurier Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience; Wilfrid Laurier University; Waterloo ON N2L 4A6 Canada
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine; The First Affiliated Hospital; Sun Yat-sen University; Guangzhou China
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- Psychology Department and Laurier Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience; Wilfrid Laurier University; Waterloo ON N2L 4A6 Canada
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Neurophysiological evidence of differential mechanisms involved in producing opposing and following responses to altered auditory feedback. Clin Neurophysiol 2013; 124:2161-71. [PMID: 23751154 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.04.340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2012] [Revised: 04/05/2013] [Accepted: 04/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE When hearing perturbations in voice auditory feedback, people produce responses that mostly oppose the perturbation direction, whereas a few responses follow the direction of feedback perturbation. The causes of opposing and following responses, however, remain poorly understood. The present event-related potential (ERP) study sought to examine the neurophysiological processing of opposing and following responses to pitch feedback perturbations during self-monitoring of vocal production. METHOD Twelve Mandarin-native speakers participated in the experiment. Vocal and neurophysiological responses to pitch perturbations (± 50 and ± 200 cents) in voice auditory feedback were measured. Individual-trial responses were categorized according to the response direction and then separately averaged in groups of opposing and following responses. ERPs indexed by the P1-N1-P2 complex corresponding to two types of vocal responses were also obtained. RESULTS Opposing and following vocal responses did not differ in the magnitude, but there were greater proportions of opposing to following responses to 50 cents stimuli. The amplitude and latency of the P1 and N1 components showed none of significance across conditions, whereas there was a direction × magnitude effect on the P2 response. Following responses elicited greater P2 amplitudes than opposing responses only when pitch feedback was perturbed for downward 200 cents, and upward pitch perturbation elicited greater P2 amplitudes than those with downward direction only in the production of opposing responses. CONCLUSION These findings demonstrate that cortical processing of opposing responses is different from that of following responses, which can be modulated by the physical properties of feedback perturbation. SIGNIFICANCE Different neural mechanisms are involved in the production of opposing and following responses to feedback perturbations during self-monitoring of vocal production.
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