Logopenic and nonfluent variants of primary progressive aphasia are differentiated by acoustic measures of speech production.

Differentiation of logopenic (lvPPA) and nonfluent/agrammatic (nfvPPA) variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia is important yet remains challenging since it hinges on expert based evaluation of speech and language production. In this study acoustic measures of speech in conjunction with voxel-based...

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Main Authors: Kirrie J Ballard, Sharon Savage, Cristian E Leyton, Adam P Vogel, Michael Hornberger, John R Hodges
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24587083/pdf/?tool=EBI