Unit:
Διακρατικό ΠΜΣ Κλινική Νευροψυχολογία-Νοητικές ΝευροεπιστήμεςLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Author:
Angelopoulou Georgia
Supervisors info:
Κωνσταντίνος Πόταγας, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Ιωάννης Ευδοκιμίδης, Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Ιωάννης Ζαλώνης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
The role of silent pauses in speech pathology
Translated title:
Ο ρόλος των σιωπηλών παύσεων στην παθολογία του λόγου
Summary:
Pauses may be studied as an aspect of the temporal organization of speech, as well as an index of internal cognitive processes, like word selection and retrieval, monitoring, articulatory planning, and memory. There are studies demonstrating a specific pattern of pauses in normal speech, however evidence from pathological populations, and especially aphasia patients is sparse and restricted to small scale studies. The aim of the present study is threefold. First, to investigate possibly different patterns of pause distribution between healthy speakers and aphasics. Second, to examine distinct pause trends among individual patients. Third, to scrutinize possible associations between aphasic pause preferences and lesion characteristics. Our results indicate different distribution of pauses during connected speech between controls and aphasics. Moreover, different pause profiles are revealed when assessing individual patient data. Finally, these profiles seem to be related to indices of lesion extent and locus. Overall, our findings stress the importance of pauses as an integral part of language assessment in clinical populations, and further support their role in healthy language production as well as impaired speech output.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Pauses, Aphasia, Connected speech, Word finding, Temporal organisation
