ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2013
How to engage the right brain hemisphere in aphasics without even singing: evidence for two paths of speech recovery.
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- Melodic Intonation Therapy for aphasia: A multi-level meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and individual participant data.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2022Pooled it
- Melodic Intonation Therapy on Non-fluent Aphasia After Stroke: A Systematic Review and Analysis on Clinical Trials.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
- The Effect of Prosodic Timing Structure on Unison Production in People With Aphasia.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2024Article
- Early Boost of Linguistic Skills? Individualized Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in Early Postacute Aphasia.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Examining cortical tracking of the speech envelope in post-stroke aphasia.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Singing for the Rehabilitation of Acquired Neurogenic Communication Disorders: Continuing the Evidence Dialogue with a Survey of Current Practices in Speech-Language Pathology.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Evaluating Cognitive-Linguistic Approaches to Interventions for Aphasia Within the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Adaptation of Melodic Intonation Therapy to Greek: A Clinical Study in Broca's Aphasia With Brain Perfusion SPECT Validation.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Article
- Neural plasticity: The substratum of music-based interventions in neurorehabilitation.NeuroRehabilitation · 2021Review
- Exploring the efficacy of melodic intonation therapy with Broca's aphasia in Arabic.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Kommunikasieafwykings · 2018Article
- The Affective Nature of Formulaic Language: A Right-Hemisphere Subcortical Process.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Article
- Melodic Intonation Therapy in Chronic Aphasia: Evidence from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
- Improved Neural Processing Efficiency in a Chronic Aphasia Patient Following Melodic Intonation Therapy: A Neuropsychological and Functional MRI Study.Frontiers in neurology · 2016Article
- Tapping into neural resources of communication: formulaic language in aphasia therapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Play along: effects of music and social interaction on word learning.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Insight into the neurophysiological processes of melodically intoned language with functional MRI.Brain and behavior · 2014Article
- Neurobiological, cognitive, and emotional mechanisms in melodic intonation therapy.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Review
- The Role of Rhythm in Speech and Language Rehabilitation: The SEP Hypothesis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Review
- Facing the music: three issues in current research on singing and aphasia.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
- The Combination of Rhythm and Pitch Can Account for the Beneficial Effect of Melodic Intonation Therapy on Connected Speech Improvements in Broca's Aphasia.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Article
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Abstract
There is an ongoing debate as to whether singing helps left-hemispheric stroke patients recover from non-fluent aphasia through stimulation of the right hemisphere. According to recent work, it may not be singing itself that aids speech production in non-fluent aphasic patients, but rhythm and lyric type. However, the long-term effects of melody and rhythm on speech recovery are largely unknown. In the current experiment, we tested 15 patients with chronic non-fluent aphasia who underwent either singing therapy, rhythmic therapy, or standard speech therapy. The experiment controlled for phonatory quality, vocal frequency variability, pitch accuracy, syllable duration, phonetic complexity and other influences, such as the acoustic setting and learning effects induced by the testing itself. The results provide the first evidence that singing and rhythmic speech may be similarly effective in the treatment of non-fluent aphasia. This finding may challenge the view that singing causes a transfer of language function from the left to the right hemisphere. Instead, both singing and rhythmic therapy patients made good progress in the production of common, formulaic phrases-known to be supported by right corticostriatal brain areas. This progress occurred at an early stage of both therapies and was stable over time. Conversely, patients receiving standard therapy made less progress in the production of formulaic phrases. They did, however, improve their production of non-formulaic speech, in contrast to singing and rhythmic therapy patients, who did not. In light of these results, it may be worth considering the combined use of standard therapy and the training of formulaic phrases, whether sung or rhythmically spoken. Standard therapy may engage, in particular, left perilesional brain regions, while training of formulaic phrases may open new ways of tapping into right-hemisphere language resources-even without singing.
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