Non-verbal sound processing in the primary progressive aphasias

Brain

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 272-285

  Goll, Johanna C ^a   Crutch, Sebastian J ^a   Loo, Jenny H Y ^b,c   Rohrer, Jonathan D ^a   Frost, Chris ^a,d   Bamiou, Doris Eva ^b,c   Warren, Jason D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agnosia; Auditory perception; Dementia; Environmental sounds; Non verbal sound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HYPOACUSIS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SOUND; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 74249093663     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp235     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Adriani M, Maeder P, Meuli R, Thiran AB, Frischknecht R, Villemure JG, et al. Sound recognition and localization in man: specialized cortical networks and effects of acute circumscribed lesions. Exp Brain Res 2003; 153: 591-604.
2. Anaki D, Kaufman Y, Freedman M, Moscovitch M. Associative (prosop) agnosia without (apparent) perceptual deficits: a case-study. Neuropsychologia 2007; 45: 1658-1671
3. Bishop DV. Test for reception of grammar. Cambridge: MRC Applied Psychology Unit; 1989.
4. Blesser B. Speech perception under conditions of spectral transformation. I. Phonetic characteristics. J Speech Hear Res 1972; 15: 5-41.
5. Bozeat S, Lambon Ralph MA, Patterson K, Garrard P, Hodges JR. Nonverbal semantic impairment in semantic dementia. Neuropsychologia 2000; 38: 1207-1215
6. Chi T, Ru P, Shamma SA. Multiresolution spectrotemporal analysis of complex sounds. J Acoust Soc Am 2005; 118: 887-906.
7. Clarke S, Bellmann A, De Ribaupierre F, Assal G. Non-verbal auditory recognition in normal subjects and brain-damaged patients: evidence for parallel processing. Neuropsychologia 1996; 34: 587-603.
8. Coccia M, Bartolini M, Luzzi S, Provinciali L, Lambon Ralph MA. Semantic memory is an amodal, dynamic system: evidence from the interaction of naming and object use in semantic dementia. Cognitive Neuropsychology 2004; 21: 513-527
9. Confavreux C, Croisile B, Garassus P, Aimard G, Trillet M. Progressive amusia and aprosody. Arch Neurol 1992; 49: 971-976
10. Crutch SJ, Warrington EK. The Influence of refractoriness upon comprehension of non-verbal auditory stimuli. Neurocase 2008; 14: 494-507.
11. Davis A. Hearing in adults: the prevalence and distribution of hearing impairment and reported hearing disability in the MRC Institute of Hearing Research's National Study of Hearing. London: Whurr Publishers; 1995.
12. De Renzi E, Scotti G, Spinnler H. Perceptual and associative disorders of visual recognition. Relationship to the side of the cerebral lesion. Neurology 1969; 19: 634-642
13. Delis DC, Kaplan E, Kramer JH. (D-KEFS). S.l. Delis-Kaplan executive function system. San Antonio: The Psychological Corporation; 2001.
14. Dunn LM, Dunn LM, Whetton C, Pintilie D. British Picture Vocabulary Scale. Windsor: NFER-Nelson; 1982.
15. Engelien A, Silbersweig D, Stern E, Huber W, Doring W, Frith C, et al. The functional anatomy of recovery from auditory agnosia. A PET study of sound categorization in a neurological patient and normal controls. Brain 1995; 118 (Pt 6): 1395-1409
16. Engelien A, Tuscher O, Hermans W, Isenberg N, Eidelberg D, Frith C, et al. Functional neuroanatomy of non-verbal semantic sound processing in humans. J Neural Transm 2006; 113: 599-608.
17. Folstein MF, Folstein SE, McHugh PR. "Mini-mental state": a practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J Psychiatr Res 1975; 12: 189-198
18. Gainotti G, Barbier A, Marra C. Slowly progressive defect in recognition of familiar people in a patient with right anterior temporal atrophy. Brain 2003; 126: 792-803.
19. Garrard P, Carroll E. Lost in semantic space: a multi-modal, non-verbal assessment of feature knowledge in semantic dementia. Brain 2006; 129: 1152-1163
20. Gorno-Tempini ML, Dronkers NF, Rankin KP, Ogar JM, Phengrasamy L, Rosen HJ, et al. Cognition and anatomy in three variants of primary progressive aphasia. Ann Neurol 2004; 55: 335-346
21. Griffiths TD, Bamiou D-E, Warren JD. Disorders of the auditory brain. In: Palmer AR, Rees A, editors. Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science: The Auditory Brain. Oxford: Oxford University Press (in press).
22. Griffiths TD, Rees A, Green G. Disorders of human complex sound processing. Neurocase 1999; 5: 365-378
23. Griffiths TD, Warren JD. The planum temporale as a computational hub. Trends Neurosci 2002; 25: 348-353
24. Griffiths TD, Warren JD. What is an auditory object? Nat Rev Neurosci 2004; 5: 887-892
25. Hodges JR, Patterson K. Semantic dementia: a unique clinicopathological syndrome. Lancet Neurol 2007; 6: 1004-1014
26. Hovius M, Kellenbach ML, Graham KS, Hodges JR, Patterson K. What does the object decision task measure? Reflections on the basis of evidence from semantic dementia. Neuropsychology 2003; 17: 100-107
27. Iizuka O, Suzuki K, Endo K, Fujii T, Mori E. Pure word deafness and pure anarthria in a patient with frontotemporal dementia. Eur J Neurol 2007; 14: 473-475
28. Jörgens S, Biermann-Ruben K, Kurz MW, Flügel C, Daehli Kurz K, Antke C, et al. Word deafness as a cortical auditory processing deficit: a case report with MEG. Neurocase 2008; 14: 307-316
29. Joubert S, Felician O, Barbeau E, Sontheimer A, Barton JJ, Ceccaldi M, et al. Impaired configurational processing in a case of progressive prosopagnosia associated with predominant right temporal lobe atrophy. Brain 2003; 126: 2537-2550
30. Kaga K, Nakamura M, Takayama Y, Momose H. A case of cortical deafness and anarthria. Acta Otolaryngol 2004; 124: 202-205
31. Kuramoto S, Hirano T, Uyama E, Tokisato K, Miura M, Watanabe S, et al. A case of slowly progressive aphasia accompanied with auditory agnosia. Rinsho Shinkeigaku 2002; 42: 299-303.
32. Kveraga K, Ghuman AS, Bar M. Top-down predictions in the cognitive brain. Brain Cogn 2007; 65: 145-168
33. Lambon Ralph MA, McClelland JL, Patterson K, Galton CJ, Hodges JR. No right to speak? The relationship between object naming and semantic impairment: neuropsychological evidence and a computational model. J Cogn Neurosci 2001; 13: 341-356
34. Lewis JW, Brefczynski JA, Phinney RE, Janik JJ, DeYoe EA. Distinct cortical pathways for processing tool versus animal sounds. J Neurosci 2005; 25: 5148-5158
35. Lewis JW, Talkington WJ, Walker NA, Spirou GA, Jajosky A, Frum C, et al. Human cortical organization for processing vocalizations indicates representation of harmonic structure as a signal attribute. J Neurosci 2009; 29: 2283-2296
36. Lewis JW, Wightman FL, Brefczynski JA, Phinney RE, Binder JR, DeYoe EA. Human brain regions involved in recognizing environmental sounds. Cereb Cortex 2004; 14: 1008-1021
37. McCarthy R, Warrington EK. A two-route model of speech production. Evidence from aphasia. Brain 1984; 107 (Pt 2): 463-485
38. Mesulam MM. Slowly progressive aphasia without generalized dementia. Ann Neurol 1982; 11: 592-598
39. Mesulam MM. Primary progressive aphasia\-a language-based dementia. N Engl J Med 2003; 349: 1535-1542
40. Mohs RC, Knopman D, Petersen RC, Ferris SH, Ernesto C, Grundman M, et al. Development of cognitive instruments for use in clinical trials of antidementia drugs: additions to the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale that broaden its scope. The Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 1997; 11 (Suppl 2): S13-21.
41. Neary D, Snowden JS, Gustafson L, Passant U, Stuss D, Black S, et al. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a consensus on clinical diagnostic criteria. Neurology 1998; 51: 1546-1554
42. Nestor PJ, Graham NL, Fryer TD, Williams GB, Patterson K, Hodges JR. Progressive non-fluent aphasia is associated with hypometabolism centred on the left anterior insula. Brain 2003; 126: 2406-2418
43. Otsuki M, Soma Y, Sato M, Homma A, Tsuji S. Slowly progressive pure word deafness. Eur Neurol 1998; 39: 135-140
44. Peretz I, Kolinsky R, Tramo M, Labrecque R, Hublet C, Demeurisse G, et al. Functional dissociations following bilateral lesions of auditory cortex. Brain 1994; 117: 1283-1301
45. Racette A, Bard C, Peretz I. Making non-fluent aphasics speak: sing along!. Brain 2006; 129: 2571-2584
46. Raven J, Raven JC, Court JH. Section 1. Manual for Raven's Progressive Matrices and Vocabulary Scales. San Antonio, TX: General Overview.Harcourt Assessment; 2003.
47. Rami L, Loy CT, Hailstone J, Warren JD. Odour identification in fronto-temporal lobar degeneration. J Neurol 2007; 254: 431-435
48. Reitan RM. A manual for the administrating and scoring of the Trail Making Test. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Indiana University Press; 1959.
49. Rogers TT, Lambon Ralph MA, Garrard P, Bozeat S, McClelland JL, Hodges JR, et al. Structure and deterioration of semantic memory: a neuropsychological and computational investigation. Psychol Rev 2004; 111: 205-235
50. Rohrer JD, Knight WD, Warren JE, Fox NC, Rossor MN, Warren JD. Word-finding difficulty: a clinical analysis of the progressive aphasias. Brain 2008a; 131: 8-38.
51. Rohrer JD, McNaught E, Foster J, Clegg SL, Barnes J, Omar R, et al. Tracking progression in frontotemporal lobar degeneration: serial MRI in semantic dementia. Neurology 2008b; 71: 1445-1451
52. Rohrer JD, Warren JD, Modat M, Ridgway GR, Douiri A, Rossor MN, et al. Patterns of cortical thinning in the language variants of fronto-temporal lobar degeneration. Neurology 2009; 72: 1562-1569
53. Saygin AP, Dick F, Wilson SM, Dronkers NF, Bates E. Neural resources for processing language and environmental sounds: evidence from aphasia. Brain 2003; 126: 928-945
54. Scott SK, Blank CC, Rosen S, Wise RJ. Identification of a pathway for intelligible speech in the left temporal lobe. Brain 2000; 123 (Pt 12): 2400-2406
55. Sonty SP, Mesulam MM, Weintraub S, Johnson NA, Parrish TB, Gitelman DR. Altered effective connectivity within the language network in primary progressive aphasia. J Neurosci 2007; 27: 1334-1345
56. Taylor A, Warrington EK. Visual agnosia: a single case report. Cortex 1971; 7: 152-161
57. Thierry G, Price CJ. Dissociating verbal and nonverbal conceptual processing in the human brain. J Cogn Neurosci 2006; 18: 1018-1028
58. Uttner I, Mottaghy FM, Schreiber H, Riecker A, Ludolph AC, Kassubek J. Primary progressive aphasia accompanied by environmental sound agnosia: a neuropsychological, MRI and PET study. Psychiatry Res 2006; 146: 191-197
59. Warren JD, Jennings AR, Griffiths TD. Analysis of the spectral envelope of sounds by the human brain. Neuroimage 2005a; 24: 1052-1057
60. Warren JE, Wise RJ, Warren JD. Sounds do-able: auditory-motor transformations and the posterior temporal plane. Trends Neurosci 2005b; 28: 636-643
61. Warrington EK. The selective impairment of semantic memory. Q J Exp Psychol 1975; 27: 635-657
62. Warrington EK. The Camden memory tests. East Sussex, UK: manual. Psychology Press; 1996.
63. Warrington EK, James M. An experimental investigation of facial recognition in patients with unilateral cerebral lesions. Cortex 1967; 3: 317-326
64. Warrington EK, James M. The visual object and space perception battery. Bury St. Edmunds: Thames Valley Test Company; 1991.
65. Warrington EK, McKenna P, Orpwood L. Single Word Comprehension: A Concrete and Abstract Word Synonym Test. Neuropsychol Rehabil 1998; 8: 143-154
66. Wilson SM, Iacoboni M. Neural responses to non-native phonemes varying in producibility: evidence for the sensorimotor nature of speech perception. Neuroimage 2006; 33: 316-325
67. Yamamoto T, Kikuchi T, Nagae J, Ogata K, Ogawa M, Kawai M. Dysprosody associated with environmental auditory sound agnosia in right temporal lobe hypoperfusion\-a case report. Rinsho Shinkeigaku 2004; 44: 28-33.
68. Zaehle T, Geiser E, Alter K, Jancke L, Meyer M. Segmental processing in the human auditory dorsal stream. Brain Res 2008; 1220: 179-90.