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%A Whitfield, Jason A.
%A Kriegel, Zoe
%A Fullenkamp, Adam M.
%A Mehta, Daryush D.
%D 2019
%T Dual-task performance in Parkinson disease (Whitfield et al., 2019)
%U https://asha.figshare.com/articles/media/Dual-task_performance_in_Parkinson_disease_Whitfield_et_al_2019_/8637008
%R 10.23641/asha.8637008.v1
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%K speech
%K Parkinson
%K Parkinson disease
%K effects
%K concurrent
%K manual
%K task
%K performance
%K connected
%K acoustics
%K simultaneous
%K motor
%K speech motor
%K deficits
%K impairment
%K motor system
%K controls
%K neurological
%K reading
%K oscillatory
%K single-task
%K dual-task
%K pause
%K extemporaneous
%K production
%K daily living
%K effort
%K secondary
%K attention
%K resources
%K Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
%K Acoustics and Acoustical Devices; Waves
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Purpose: Prior investigations suggest that simultaneous performance of more than 1 motor-oriented task may exacerbate speech motor deficits in individuals with Parkinson disease (PD). The purpose of the current investigation was to examine the extent to which performing a low-demand manual task affected the connected speech in individuals with and without PD.
Method: Individuals with PD and neurologically healthy controls performed speech tasks (reading and extemporaneous speech tasks) and an oscillatory manual task (a counterclockwise circle-drawing task) in isolation (single-task condition) and concurrently (dual-task condition).
Results: Relative to speech task performance, no changes in speech acoustics were observed for either group when the low-demand motor task was performed with the concurrent reading tasks. Speakers with PD exhibited a significant decrease in pause duration between the single-task (speech only) and dual-task conditions for the extemporaneous speech task, whereas control participants did not exhibit changes in any speech production variable between the single- and dual-task conditions.
Conclusions: Overall, there were little to no changes in speech production when a low-demand oscillatory motor task was performed with concurrent reading. For the extemporaneous task, however, individuals with PD exhibited significant changes when the speech and manual tasks were performed concurrently, a pattern that was not observed for control speakers.
Supplemental Material S1. Visual representation of the algorithm used to compute within- trial kinematic variation. The standard deviation of the radius was calculated by first computing the standard deviations of all cycle radii within the 10-degree windows, and then the standard deviations from each window were averaged to arrive at an aggregate variance metric.
Supplemental Material S2. Animation of 30 seconds of a manual movement trace produced by a control participant in the single-task condition (i.e., circling alone).
Supplemental Material S3. Animation of 30 seconds of a manual movement trace produced by a participant with Parkinson disease (PD) in the single-task condition (i.e., circling alone). Note: the Hoehn and Yahr (H&Y) stage for this participant was 3.
Whitfield, J. A., Kriegel, Z., Fullenkamp, A. M., & Mehta, D. D. (2019). Effects of concurrent manual task performance on connected speech acoustics in individuals with Parkinson disease. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62, 2099–2117. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-S-MSC18-18-0190
Publisher Note: This article is part of the Forum: Selected Papers From the 2018 Conference on Motor Speech—Basic Science and Clinical Innovation.
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