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Plowman, Emily K.; Kleim, Jeffrey A. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
Both limb and cranial motor functions are adversely impacted by Parkinson's disease (PD). While current pharmacological and surgical interventions are effective in alleviating general limb motor symptoms of PD, they have failed to provide significant benefit for cranial motor functions. This suggests that the neuropathologies mediating limb and…
Descriptors: Animals, Physical Disabilities, Diseases, Pathology
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Wong, Patrick C. M.; Ettlinger, Marc – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
We report two sets of experiments showing that the large individual variability in language learning success in adults can be attributed to neurophysiological, neuroanatomical, cognitive, and perceptual factors. In the first set of experiments, native English-speaking adults learned to incorporate lexically meaningfully pitch patterns in words. We…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Phonology, Tone Languages
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Small, Steven L. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1994
Connectionist (parallel distributed processing) modeling provides a new way to approach the neurological study of language. This method focuses on the interplay between a computational model and the appropriate neurological, neuropsychological, and speech and language data, couched in connectionist mechanisms that map naturally to what is known of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Language Processing