Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Frank Boutsen, Eunsun Park, Justin D. Dvorak
Summary: The study aimed to investigate the effect of warm-up on reading prosody and the impact of reading skill on prosody. The results showed that an oral reading before silent reading had an impact on prosody, while silent reading before oral reading did not. Additionally, reading skill exhibited different predictive associations in the different reading conditions explored.
JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
You-Zhen Yen, Chia-Hsin Wu, Roger W. Chan
Summary: This study developed a new Mandarin phonetically balanced "Three Bears Passage" and found that reading this passage elicited vocal range (F0 range and intensity range) similar to that of sustained vowel production and significantly different from reading an existing standard Mandarin passage. This suggests that individuals without vocal training can demonstrate a large vocal range in both F0 and vocal intensity in a passage reading setting.
JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yushu Wu, Chunyu Kit
Summary: This article introduces the features and establishment process of the Hong Kong Corpus of Chinese Sentence and Passage Reading (HKC), and shares eye movement data obtained through eye tracking measurements. The study found that factors such as visual complexity, word frequency, and reading scenario have significant impacts on eye movements, providing valuable resources for exploring eye movement control. By contrasting the different scenarios of single-sentence and passage reading, the research hopes to shed new light on the universal nature of reading and the unique characteristics of Chinese reading.
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Ashley Adams Sanabria, Maria Adelaida Restrepo, Erin Walker, Arthur Glenberg
Summary: This study evaluated the efficacy of a reading comprehension intervention for dual language learners, some of whom had developmental language disorders. The intervention was most effective with narrative and easy texts, and DLLs with lower initial English reading abilities benefited more from it. Future research should focus on matching text difficulty with child skills to maximize intervention benefits.
JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Gabriela Dziegiel-Fivet, Joanna Plewko, Marcin Szczerbinski, Artur Marchewka, Marcin Szwed, Katarzyna Jednorog
Summary: Research suggests that reading relies on brain areas dedicated to speech processing, with a universal speech-reading convergence phenomenon found among different writing systems. While the neural networks for Braille and visual reading overlap in certain areas, blind individuals do not utilize the speech system for reading like sighted individuals. The engagement of vOT in speech processing and reading in the blind implies its inclusion in a modality-independent language network in the blind.
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Frits van Brenk, Kaila Stipancic, Alexander Kain, Kris Tjaden
Summary: This study investigated the variability of intelligibility during passage reading for individuals with dysarthria and compared different treatment speaking styles. The results showed that intelligibility varied throughout the reading passage, with the variation depending on the speaking style for the multiple sclerosis group.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Cell Biology
Anne-Lise Giraud, Yaqing Su
Summary: Tang et al. have developed a noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI) that can reconstruct continuous language from semantic brain responses. This study has implications in facilitating neural speech decoder applications and addressing concerns about misuse in non-medical settings.
CELL REPORTS MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Mathematics
Dmitry Ryumin, Elena Ryumina, Denis Ivanko
Summary: This article presents a novel approach called EMOLIPS for emotional speech lip-reading. It utilizes visual data processing and deep learning techniques for speech to text recognition. By using trained emotional lip-reading models, the approach successfully addresses the issue of multi-emotional lip-reading in real-life scenarios. Experimental results show a significant improvement in phrase recognition accuracy.
Article
Neurosciences
Emily O. Garnett, Ho Ming Chow, Sarah Limb, Yanni Liu, Soo-Eun Chang
Summary: Adults who stutter show disrupted auditory motor integration during overt speech, but exhibit enhanced activity in the auditory cortex under fluency-inducing conditions. This study used a technique to address speech movement artifacts and found differences in brain activity and functional connectivity in stutterers during fluent and stuttering-prone speech.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Yao Cong, Yimin Wu, Xinbo Liang, Jiayan Pei, Zishan Qin
Summary: The study introduces the PH-Model for Chinese multi-passage MRC task, focusing on reducing noise information and extracting hierarchical information to produce more precise answers. Experimental results show that PH-Model outperforms the baseline by 18.24% and 24.17% in terms of ROUGE-L and BLEU-4 on the DuReader 2.0 dataset.
APPLIED INTELLIGENCE
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Joo Hyun Park, Jong-Woo Lee, Jong-Seok Um, Juhye Yook, Kwangki Kim, Soon-Bum Lim
Summary: This study focuses on the education needs of individuals with reading disabilities by defining Korean math-to-speech rules, designing a corresponding conversion program, and conducting a performance test to verify the accuracy and clarity of the transformed formulas.
JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Oscar Woolnough, Cristian Donos, Aidan Curtis, Patrick S. Rollo, Zachary J. Roccaforte, Stanislas Dehaene, Simon Fischer-Baum, Nitin Tandon
Summary: Reading words aloud is a fundamental aspect of literacy. The study found that lexicality is encoded earliest in the mid-fusiform cortex and precentral sulcus, while word frequency is first represented in the mid-fusiform cortex and later in the inferior frontal gyrus and inferior parietal sulcus. Orthographic neighborhood sensitivity resides solely in the inferior parietal sulcus.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jing Zhou
Summary: This study examines the relationship between syntactic awareness and L2 Chinese passage-level reading comprehension in 209 adult learners. The results show a significant positive correlation between participants' performance in syntactic awareness tasks and their reading comprehension. Syntactic awareness makes a unique contribution to L2 Chinese reading, and word order knowledge has a stronger predicting power than grammatical judgment/correction ability.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Ladislas Nalborczyk, Ursula Debarnot, Marieke Longcamp, Aymeric Guillot, F-Xavier Alario
Summary: This article discusses the possible role(s) of motor inhibition during covert speech production and suggests that covert speech can be considered as an inhibited form of overt speech, which aligns with the progressive internalization of overt speech during childhood. The article further argues that the role of motor inhibition may vary widely across different forms of covert speech, and considering this variability helps reconcile seemingly contradictory findings from the neuroimaging literature.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Qianwei Duan, Jun Huang, Huiyan Wu
Summary: The study proposes a Contextual and Semantic Fusion Network (CSFN) that effectively integrates contextual and semantic representation, incorporating explicit structured semantics and transfer learning strategy for better generalization over limited datasets. Experimental results on three MCRC benchmark datasets (RACE, DREAM, MCTest) demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model.
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Heather Kember, Kathryn Connaghan, Rupal Patel
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
(2017)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Kathryn P. Connaghan, Rupal Patel
JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
(2017)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Rupal Patel, Kathryn P. Connaghan, Pamela J. Campellone
FOLIA PHONIATRICA ET LOGOPAEDICA
(2013)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Kathryn P. Connaghan, Christopher A. Moore
JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
(2013)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Rupal Patel, Kathryn Connaghan
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
(2014)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Marziye Eshghi, Kathryn P. Connaghan, Sarah E. Gutz, James D. Berry, Yana Yunusova, Jordan R. Greena
Summary: This study aimed to explore the application of acoustic measures in perceptual nasality and voice issues in ALS patients. The research found that the one-third octave analysis could differentiate between different groups, whereas cepstral peak prominence could differentiate most groups, and the low-to-high spectral ratio showed no difference among groups. The results suggest that the one-third octave analysis could be a promising method for quantifying hypernasality and voice abnormalities.
JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Anna L. Beukenhorst, Katherine M. Burke, Zoe Scheier, Timothy M. Miller, Sabrina Paganoni, Mackenzie Keegan, Ella Collins, Kathryn P. Connaghan, Anna Tay, James Chan, James D. Berry, Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the feasibility of data collection from patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis through smartphone-based studies. The results showed that most participants were able to complete surveys and audio recordings long term, with the highest data completeness in passively collected location data. While data completeness tended to decline over time, overall these three studies successfully collected data.
JMIR MHEALTH AND UHEALTH
(2022)
Article
Linguistics
K. P. Connaghan, D. Fisk, R. Patel
Summary: While no differences were observed in overall phoneme and word transcription scores, a significant interaction between listener group and transcription error type was noted, indicating potential distinct listening strategies and abilities between listeners with and without musical training experience.
COMMUNICATION DISORDERS QUARTERLY
(2021)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Kathryn P. Connaghan, Rupal Patel
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
(2012)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Rupal Patel, Katherine C. Hustad, Kathryn P. Connaghan, William Furr
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
(2012)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
KP Connaghan, CA Moore, M Higashakawa
JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
(2004)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
A Skinder, K Connaghan, E Strand, S Betz
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
(2000)
