spatial Processing When we are trying to listen to speech in noisy environments, auditory processes in the brain help us to focus on the person we want to hear while simultaneously suppressing competing sounds coming from different locations. The target speech appears to pop out from the competition , so to speak. The technical term for this process is spatial release from masking — or spatial ...

We analyzed the prosody of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Language Disorder, and typical development in conversational speech, using the CSLU ADOS speech corpus. We found several significant differences in the pitch characteristics of these diagnostic groups, and report automatic classification utilizing these features that are well above chance level. We show that the ch...

Background: auditory evoked potentials in children with phonological disorder. Aim: to characterize the long latency auditory evoked potentials (LLAEP) results N1, P2, N2 and P300 of children with phonological disorder and to verify the improvement of such potentials with speech therapy. Method: 25 children without phonological disorder (control group) and 41 with phonological disorder (study g...

FAS is a speech disorder characterized by changes to the normal speech patterns of the native language. This speech impairment is usually due to stroke or brain injury. Segmental, suprasegmental and prosodic features are altered. FAS speakers’ speech is perceived as foreign rather than disordered. It may be because the speech remains highly accurate and the impairments are generally within the ...

Impairments in language and communication are core features of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and a substantial percentage of children with ASD do not develop speech. ASD is often characterized as a disorder of brain connectivity, and a number of studies have identified white matter impairments in affected individuals. The current study investigated white matter integrity in the speech network...

OBJECTIVE An abnormal superior temporal gyrus has figured prominently in schizophrenia research, and left superior temporal gyrus volume has been shown to be smaller in male subjects with schizotypal personality disorder. This is the first structural magnetic resonance imaging study to examine a group of female subjects with schizotypal personality disorder. METHOD The superior temporal gyrus...

This study investigates the output phonological processing of children with phonological disorder and delay and asks whether different processing deficits underlie different speech disorders. The study compares the speech errors of two groups of children on four tasks: naming, repetition of sentence, repetition of non-words and words. These tasks arguably tap different levels of output processi...

Few studies have examined connected speech in demented and non-demented patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). We assessed the speech production of 35 patients with Lewy body spectrum disorder (LBSD), including non-demented PD patients, patients with PD dementia (PDD), and patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), in a semi-structured narrative speech sample in order to characterize impai...