Computational Neural Modeling of Speech Motor Control in Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)

Purpose: Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) has been associated with a wide variety of diagnostic descriptions and has been shown to involve different symptoms during successive stages of development. In the present study, the authors attempted to associate the symptoms of CAS in a particular develop...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 52; no. 6; pp. 1595 - 1610
Autores principales: Terband, Hayo, Maassen, Ben, Guenther, Frank H., Brumberg, Jonathan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association December 2009
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          Terband, Hayo
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          Guenther, Frank H.
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        Speech therapy
        Speech disorders
        Sound
        Speech
        Apraxia
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          Speech therapy
          Speech disorders
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      ab: Purpose: Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) has been associated with a wide variety of diagnostic descriptions and has been shown to involve different symptoms during successive stages of development. In the present study, the authors attempted to associate the symptoms of CAS in a particular developmental stage with particular information-processing deficits by using computational modeling with the Directions Into Velocities of Articulators (DIVA) model. The hypothesis was that the speech production system in CAS suffers from poor feed-forward control and, consequently, an increased reliance on the feedback control subsystem. Method: In a series of computer simulations, the authors systematically varied the ratio between feed-forward and feedback control during production attempts in the acquisition of feed-forward motor commands. The simulations were evaluated acoustically on 4 selected key symptoms of CAS. Results: Results showed that increasing the reliance on feedback control causes increased severity of these 4 symptoms of CAS: deviant coarticulation, speech sound distortion, searching articulation, and increased variability. Conclusions: The findings support the idea that the key symptoms found in CAS could result from an increased reliance on feedback control due to poor feed-forward commands. Two possible root causes of degraded feed-forward control in CAS are discussed: reduced somatosensory information and increased levels of neural noise. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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