Spreken en spraakverstaan zijn processen van informatieverwerking waarin conceptuele inhouden wor... more Spreken en spraakverstaan zijn processen van informatieverwerking waarin conceptuele inhouden worden omgezet in spraak en vice versa. Van oudsher hebben met name de taalkunde, met inbegrip van de fonologie en de fonetiek, en de medische wetenschappen, onder meer de foniatrie en de neurologie, zich beziggehouden met taal, spraak, communicatie en taal– en spraakpathologie. Sinds het begin van de jaren zestig hebben psychologen deze onderwerpen onderzocht, maar nu veel meer dan daarvoor met belangstelling voor het proces van spreken en spraakverstaan. De toepassing van experimentele technieken uit de cognitieve psychologie heeft onze kennis over de verschillende stappen van informatieverwerking die spreken en spraakverstaan mogelijk maken aanzienlijk verruimd. De psycholinguistische procesanalyse, en de daaruit voortvloeiende inzichten in de cognitieve architectuur van taal en spraak, heeft toepassing gevonden in de diagnostiek en/of behandeling van taal– en spraakpathologie.
Articulography and functional neuroimaging are two major tools for studying the neurobiology of s... more Articulography and functional neuroimaging are two major tools for studying the neurobiology of speech production. Until now, however, it has generally not been feasible to use both in the same experimental setup because of technical incompatibilities between the two methodologies. Here we describe results from a novel articulography system dubbed Magneto-articulography for the Assessment of Speech Kinematics (MASK; Alves et al., 2016), which is technically compatible with magnetoencephalography (MEG) brain scanning systems. In the present paper we describe our methodological and analytic approach for extracting brain motor activities related to key kinematic and coordination event parameters derived from time-registered MASK tracking measurements (Anastasopoulou et al., 2022). Data were collected from two healthy adults with tracking coils on the tongue, lips, and jaw. Analyses targeted the gestural landmarks of reiterated utterances /ipa/ and /api/, produced at normal and faster r...
Articulography and functional neuroimaging are two major tools for studying the neurobiology of s... more Articulography and functional neuroimaging are two major tools for studying the neurobiology of speech production. Until now, however, it has generally not been possible to use both in the same experimental setup because of technical incompatibilities between the two methodologies. Here we describe results from a novel articulography system dubbed Magneto-articulography for the Assessment of Speech Kinematics (MASK), used for the first time to obtain kinematic profiles of oro-facial movements during speech together with concurrent magnetoencephalographic (MEG) measurements of neuromotor brain activity. MASK was used to characterise speech kinematics in a healthy adult, and the results were compared to measurements from the same participant with a conventional electromagnetic articulography (EMA) setup. We also characterised speech movement kinematics with MASK in a group of ten typically developing children, aged 8-12 years. Analyses targeted the gestural landmarks of the utterances...
Spreken en spraakverstaan zijn processen van informatieverwerking waarin conceptuele inhouden wor... more Spreken en spraakverstaan zijn processen van informatieverwerking waarin conceptuele inhouden worden omgezet in spraak en vice versa. Van oudsher hebben met name de taalkunde, met inbegrip van de fonologie en de fonetiek, en de medische wetenschappen, onder meer de foniatrie en de neurologie, zich beziggehouden met taal, spraak, communicatie en taal– en spraakpathologie. Sinds het begin van de jaren zestig hebben psychologen deze onderwerpen onderzocht, maar nu veel meer dan daarvoor met belangstelling voor het proces van spreken en spraakverstaan. De toepassing van experimentele technieken uit de cognitieve psychologie heeft onze kennis over de verschillende stappen van informatieverwerking die spreken en spraakverstaan mogelijk maken aanzienlijk verruimd. De psycholinguistische procesanalyse, en de daaruit voortvloeiende inzichten in de cognitieve architectuur van taal en spraak, heeft toepassing gevonden in de diagnostiek en/of behandeling van taal– en spraakpathologie.
Articulography and functional neuroimaging are two major tools for studying the neurobiology of s... more Articulography and functional neuroimaging are two major tools for studying the neurobiology of speech production. Until now, however, it has generally not been feasible to use both in the same experimental setup because of technical incompatibilities between the two methodologies. Here we describe results from a novel articulography system dubbed Magneto-articulography for the Assessment of Speech Kinematics (MASK; Alves et al., 2016), which is technically compatible with magnetoencephalography (MEG) brain scanning systems. In the present paper we describe our methodological and analytic approach for extracting brain motor activities related to key kinematic and coordination event parameters derived from time-registered MASK tracking measurements (Anastasopoulou et al., 2022). Data were collected from two healthy adults with tracking coils on the tongue, lips, and jaw. Analyses targeted the gestural landmarks of reiterated utterances /ipa/ and /api/, produced at normal and faster r...
Articulography and functional neuroimaging are two major tools for studying the neurobiology of s... more Articulography and functional neuroimaging are two major tools for studying the neurobiology of speech production. Until now, however, it has generally not been possible to use both in the same experimental setup because of technical incompatibilities between the two methodologies. Here we describe results from a novel articulography system dubbed Magneto-articulography for the Assessment of Speech Kinematics (MASK), used for the first time to obtain kinematic profiles of oro-facial movements during speech together with concurrent magnetoencephalographic (MEG) measurements of neuromotor brain activity. MASK was used to characterise speech kinematics in a healthy adult, and the results were compared to measurements from the same participant with a conventional electromagnetic articulography (EMA) setup. We also characterised speech movement kinematics with MASK in a group of ten typically developing children, aged 8-12 years. Analyses targeted the gestural landmarks of the utterances...
This study investigates the oral gestures of 8-month-old infants in response to audiovisual prese... more This study investigates the oral gestures of 8-month-old infants in response to audiovisual presentation of lip and tongue smacks. Infants exhibited more lip gestures than tongue gestures following adult lip smacks and more tongue gestures than lip gestures following adult tongue smacks. The findings, which are consistent with predictions from Articulatory Phonology, imply that 8-month-old infants are capable of producing goal-directed oral gestures by matching the articulatory organ of an adult model.
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