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Decline of auditory-motor speech processing in older adults with hearing loss (2018)
Journal Article
Panouillères, M. T., & Möttönen, R. (2018). Decline of auditory-motor speech processing in older adults with hearing loss. Neurobiology of Aging, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.07.013

Older adults often experience difficulties in understanding speech, partly because of age-related hearing loss. In young adults, activity of the left articulatory motor cortex is enhanced and it interacts with the auditory cortex via the left-hemisph... Read More about Decline of auditory-motor speech processing in older adults with hearing loss.

Facilitation of motor excitability during listening to spoken sentences is not modulated by noise or semantic coherence (2018)
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Panouillères, M. T., Boyles, R., Chesters, J., Watkins, K. E., & Möttönen, R. (2018). Facilitation of motor excitability during listening to spoken sentences is not modulated by noise or semantic coherence. Cortex, 103, 44-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.02.007

Comprehending speech can be particularly challenging in a noisy environment and in the absence of semantic context. It has been proposed that the articulatory motor system would be recruited especially in difficult listening conditions. However, it r... Read More about Facilitation of motor excitability during listening to spoken sentences is not modulated by noise or semantic coherence.

Transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal cortex improves speech fluency in adults who stutter (2018)
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Chesters, J., Möttönen, R., & Watkins, K. E. (2018). Transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal cortex improves speech fluency in adults who stutter. Brain, 141(4), 1161-1171. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awy011

© The Author(s) (2018). Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting 5% of children, and persisting in 1% of adults. Promoting lasting fluency improvement in adults who stutter is a particular challenge. Novel interventions to improve outco... Read More about Transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal cortex improves speech fluency in adults who stutter.

Supernatural belief is not modulated by intuitive thinking style or cognitive inhibition (2017)
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Farias, M., van Mulukom, V., Kahane, G., Kreplin, U., Joyce, A., Soares, P., …Möttönen, R. (2017). Supernatural belief is not modulated by intuitive thinking style or cognitive inhibition. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 15100. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14090-9

According to the Intuitive Belief Hypothesis, supernatural belief relies heavily on intuitive thinking—and decreases when analytic thinking is engaged. After pointing out various limitations in prior attempts to support this Intuitive Belief Hypothes... Read More about Supernatural belief is not modulated by intuitive thinking style or cognitive inhibition.

Language learning in the adult brain: disrupting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates word-form learning (2017)
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Smalle, E. H., Panouilleres, M., Szmalec, A., & Möttönen, R. (in press). Language learning in the adult brain: disrupting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates word-form learning. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 13966. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14547-x

Adults do not learn languages as easily as children do. It has been hypothesized that the late-developing prefrontal cortex that supports executive functions competes with procedural learning mechanisms that are important for language learning. To ad... Read More about Language learning in the adult brain: disrupting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates word-form learning.

Investigating the feasibility of using transcranial direct current stimulation to enhance fluency in people who stutter (2016)
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Chesters, J., Watkins, K. E., & Möttönen, R. (2017). Investigating the feasibility of using transcranial direct current stimulation to enhance fluency in people who stutter. Brain and Language, 164, 68-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.10.003

Developmental stuttering is a disorder of speech fluency affecting 1% of the adult population. Long-term reductions in stuttering are difficult for adults to achieve with behavioural therapies. We investigated whether a single session of transcranial... Read More about Investigating the feasibility of using transcranial direct current stimulation to enhance fluency in people who stutter.

Neural basis of understanding communicative actions: changes associated with knowing the actor’s intention and the meanings of the actions (2016)
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Möttönen, R., Farmer, H., & Watkins, K. E. (2016). Neural basis of understanding communicative actions: changes associated with knowing the actor’s intention and the meanings of the actions. Neuropsychologia, 81, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.01.002

People can communicate by using hand actions, e.g., signs. Understanding communicative actions requires that the observer knows that the actor has an intention to communicate and the meanings of the actions. Here, we investigated how this prior knowl... Read More about Neural basis of understanding communicative actions: changes associated with knowing the actor’s intention and the meanings of the actions.

The effects of delayed auditory and visual feedback on speech production (2015)
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Chesters, J., Baghai-Ravary, L., & Möttönen, R. (in press). The effects of delayed auditory and visual feedback on speech production. Nature Energy, 137(2), https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4906266

Monitoring the sensory consequences of articulatory movements supports speaking. For example, delaying auditory feedback of a speaker's voice disrupts speech production. Also, there is evidence that this disruption may be decreased by immediate visua... Read More about The effects of delayed auditory and visual feedback on speech production.

Dissociating contributions of the motor cortex to speech perception and response bias by using transcranial magnetic stimulation (2014)
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Smalle, E. H., Rogers, J., & Möttönen, R. (2015). Dissociating contributions of the motor cortex to speech perception and response bias by using transcranial magnetic stimulation. Cerebral Cortex, 25(10), https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu218

Recent studies using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) have demonstrated that disruptions of the articulatory motor cortex impair performance in demanding speech perception tasks. These findings have been interpreted as support for t... Read More about Dissociating contributions of the motor cortex to speech perception and response bias by using transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Effect of attentional load on audiovisual speech perception: evidence from ERPs (2014)
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Alsius, A., Möttönen, R., Sams, M. E., Soto-Faraco, S., & Tiippana, K. (in press). Effect of attentional load on audiovisual speech perception: evidence from ERPs. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, Article 727. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00727

Seeing articulatory movements influences perception of auditory speech. This is often reflected in a shortened latency of auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) generated in the auditory cortex. The present study addressed whether this early neural... Read More about Effect of attentional load on audiovisual speech perception: evidence from ERPs.

Discrimination of speech and non-speech sounds following theta-burst stimulation of the motor cortex (2014)
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Rogers, J. C., Möttönen, R., Boyles, R., & Watkins, K. E. (2014). Discrimination of speech and non-speech sounds following theta-burst stimulation of the motor cortex. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, Article 754. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00754

Perceiving speech engages parts of the motor system involved in speech production. The role of the motor cortex in speech perception has been demonstrated using low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to suppress motor excit... Read More about Discrimination of speech and non-speech sounds following theta-burst stimulation of the motor cortex.

Attention fine-tunes auditory-motor processing of speech sounds (2014)
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Möttönen, R., van de Ven, G., & Watkins, K. (2014). Attention fine-tunes auditory-motor processing of speech sounds. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(11), https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2214-13.2014

The earliest stages of cortical processing of speech sounds take place in the auditory cortex. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have provided evidence that the human articulatory motor cortex contributes also to speech processing. For... Read More about Attention fine-tunes auditory-motor processing of speech sounds.