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Articulation Characterization in AD Speech Production

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Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II

Part of the book series: Biosystems & Biorobotics ((BIOSYSROB,volume 15))

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Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) produce important clues in speech, which may be used in pathology monitoring and grading. The study is intended to model which aspects of articulation may be affected more, and to which extent. Comparing speech from AD patients versus control subjects produced in animal naming, certain characteristics may be observed, encoding fluency and formant dynamics. Kullback-Leibler Divergence from formant velocity distributions is sought to work as a possible biomarker in AD monitoring tasks.

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Acknowledgments

The present work is funded by grants TEC2012-38630-C04-01 and TEC2012-38630-C04-04 from Plan Nacional de I + D+i, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Competitiveness of Spain.

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  1. Neuromorphic Speech Processing Laboratory, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    P. Gómez-Vilda, V. Rodellar-Biarge & D. Palacios-Alonso

  2. UPV/EHU (Basque Country University), Donostia, Gipuzkoa, Spain

    M. K. López de Ipiña

  3. Neurology Department, Foundation CITA-Alzheimer, Donostia, Gipuzkoa, Spain

    M. Ecay-Torres

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  1. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    Jaime Ibáñez

  2. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José González-Vargas

  3. Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Elche, Spain

    José María Azorín

  4. Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, USA

    Metin Akay

  5. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José Luis Pons

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Gómez-Vilda, P., López de Ipiña, M.K., Rodellar-Biarge, V., Palacios-Alonso, D., Ecay-Torres, M. (2017). Articulation Characterization in AD Speech Production. In: Ibáñez, J., González-Vargas, J., Azorín, J., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_140

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