DYNAMIC CONTROL OF THE PERIORAL SYSTEM DURING SPEECH - KINEMATIC ANALYSES OF AUTOGENIC AND NONAUTOGENIC SENSORIMOTOR PROCESSES
DYNAMIC CONTROL OF THE PERIORAL SYSTEM DURING SPEECH - KINEMATIC ANALYSES OF AUTOGENIC AND NONAUTOGENIC SENSORIMOTOR PROCESSES
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DOI:
10.1152/jn.1985.54.2.418
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
ABBS, JH
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作者:
GRACCO, VL;ABBS, JH
Afferent contributions to the motor control of speech were evaluated by applying unanticipated loads to the lower lip during the combined upper lip-lower lip gesture associated with the oral closing movements for a b sound. Loads were introduced randomly in .apprx. 15% of the trials to minimize subject anticipation or adaptation. A total of 490 load trials (in 5 naive subjects) were distributed within a restricted interval (100 ms) centered on the initiation of agonist muscle contraction associated with the lip-closing movements. Kinematic adjustments of the upper and lower lips to these perturbations were examined in detail. In all subjects, load-induced changes in upper and lower lip displacement, movement time, and closing velocity were statistically significant and observed the 1st time a perturbation was introduced. Load timing variations within the target interval resulted in systematic changes in the site of the compensatory adjustments (upper versus lower lip) and in the magnitude of the kinematic responses. These kinematic changes appeared to reflect the dynamic nature of underlying control processes and clearly contrasted the different response characteristics of autogenic (lower lip) and nonautogenic (upper lip) compensatory actions. Although both upper and lower lip adjustments contributed to perturbation compensations, autogenic responses predominated when loads occurred 20-55 ms before muscle activation. For these early loads, autogenic responses provided .apprx. 75% of the total compensation. For later loads, when the evolving speech motor action was more time constrained, nonautogenic (open-loop) compensations predominated, providing .apprx. 65% of the total compensation. The variations in upper and lower lip compensatory response magnitude did not parallel the time course of facial muscle activation. Lower lip kinematic adjustments were reduced 10-15 ms prior to the onset of agonist muscle activation, whereas upper lip adjustments increased in magnitude 10-20 ms after agonist onset. The dynamic modulation of these responses is controlled independently from facial motoneuron excitation, possibly involving sensorimotor processing via supranuclear centers. The compensatory movement dsiplacements were highly related to the magnitude of the perturbation displacement, especially for loads introduced prior to agonist muscle onset, reflecting a well-calibrated readjustment. Responses to later loads were less consistently related to perturbation didplacement. Although compensatory displacements were manifest in a calibrated manner, adjustments in movement velocity and movement time were more variable and appeared to be subordinate to displacement adjustments. In 1 of the subjects movement velocity and movement time was strikingly different from those of the other subjects. Even in a motor task such as speech, where some temporal constraints are manifest, the nervous system control process has flexibility in disassociating these kinematic variables. Afferent information from the perioral region is used in multiple ways in control of lip movements for speech. Prior to agonist muscle activation, based on the well-calibrated responses, afferent information is seemingly used to specify and update control parameters as part of what was termed motor programming. Once motor execution is under way, afferent input is used to shape the evolving motor output, primarily via nonautogenic adjustments, to ensure achievement of multimovement goals.