The combination of rhythm and pitch can account for the beneficial effect of melodic intonation therapy on connected speech improvements in Broca's aphasia

A Zumbansen, I Peretz, S Hébert - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
… The results emphasize the beneficial effect of both rhythm and pitch in the efficacy of original
MIT on connected speech, an outcome of primary clinical importance in aphasia therapy. …

From singing to speaking: Why singing may lead to recovery of expressive language function in patients with Broca's aphasia

G Schlaug, S Marchina, A Norton - Music perception, 2008 - online.ucpress.edu
… the strongest contribution to the therapy’s beneficial effects are the melodic intonation with
its … tapping of the left hand, make the strongest contribution to the therapy’s beneficial effect. …

Reception of language in Broca's aphasia

D Shankweiler, S Crain, P Gorrell… - Language and Cognitive …, 1989 - Taylor & Francis
… Further evidence that the grammaticality judgement task involves on-line sentence processing
is the beneficial effect of proximity of the licensing and the target words.’ If a sentence is …

Effect of propranolol on naming in chronic Broca's aphasia with anomia

DQ Beversdorf, UK Sharma, NN Phillips… - Neurocase, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
… propranolol may be beneficial for naming in patients with Broca's aphasia with anomia due
to chronic ischemic stroke. This effect may be due to the network effects of the noradrenergic …

Evidence for plasticity in white‐matter tracts of patients with chronic Broca's aphasia undergoing intense intonation‐based speech therapy

G Schlaug, S Marchina, A Norton - … of the New York Academy of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… The two unique elements of MIT that, most likely, make the strongest contribution to the
therapy's beneficial effects are the melodic intonation (singing) with its inherent sustained …

Comparing the efficiency of speech and language therapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation for treating Broca's aphasia

İC Yaşa, İ Maviş, C Şalçini, M İpek - Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular …, 2023 - Elsevier
… to examine the effect of SLT on aphasia and concluded that a higher intensity of SLT is
more beneficial for aphasia treatment. Several other studies indicated the positive effect of SLT …

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of Broca's area in chronic aphasia: a controlled outcome study

C Volpato, M Cavinato, F Piccione, M Garzon… - Behavioural brain …, 2013 - Elsevier
… The potential beneficial effects of decreasing excitation in contralesional healthy cortical
regions are based on studies that demonstrated that disinhibition of contralesional (motor) …

Improved picture naming in aphasia patients treated with cathodal tDCS to inhibit the right Broca's homologue area

EK Kang, YK Kim, HM Sohn… - Restorative neurology …, 2011 - content.iospress.com
… Accordingly, strategies must be developed that enhance the beneficial effects of word-retrieval
training protocols. A recent open-protocol study showed that 10 day sessions of inhibitory …

The effects of silent visuomotor cueing on word retrieval in Broca's aphasies: A pilot study

K Grechuta, BR Bellaster, RE Munné… - 2017 International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… visuomotor cueing has a beneficial effect on word retrieval … it influences relearning of lexicon
in Broca’s aphasics. Thanks to … effects of SVC on word retrieval in chronic Broca’s aphasia

Speech entrainment enables patients with Broca's aphasia to produce fluent speech

J Fridriksson, HI Hubbard, SG Hudspeth, AL Holland… - Brain, 2012 - academic.oup.com
… Importantly, speech entrainment that relies only on audition does not have the same
beneficial effect. This suggests that seeing the mouth of the speech model provides crucial …