Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a highly heterogeneous and pervasive developmental disorder that affects nearly 1 in 150 children. A primary indicator of ASD is behavioral language impairment with respect to social communication, but the neurophysiology behind this impairment is not well understood. Both the perception and production of prosody...
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a debilitating neurodegenerative syndrome that principally impairs the cognitive domain of language. Patients demonstrate deficits in a variety of language faculties including object naming (anomia), word finding, single word and sentence reading, speech comprehension, repetition, syntactic processing, and paraphasia. PPA has been associated with selective...