In the last years, we have participated in a number of conferences and congresses. We are pleased that our interdisciplinary research is receiving attention - not only in the form of posters but also talks.

Talks

2024

• Thies, T. (accepted) Sprache als digitaler Biomarker für Krankheitsprogression und Therapiemonitoring. Deutscher Kongress für Parkinson und Bewegungsstörung, April 25 - 27, 2024, Rostock, Germany.

2022

• Thies, T., Barbe, M.T., Visser-Vandewalle, V. & Mücke, D. (2022). Disease- and treatment-related changes of tongue body movements in Parkinson’s disease: An electromagnetic articulography study. 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, 24-27 August 2022, Groningen, Nethderlands.

2021

• Thies, T., Dano, R.,  Barbe, M.T. & Mücke, D. (2021). Syllable coordination patterns in Parkinsonian speech: Effects of medication and deep brain stimulation on tongue and lip movements within a speaker’s system. 4th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe, 21-23 June 2021, online, virtual.

2019

• Thies, T., Eichholz, J., Mücke, D. & M. T. Barbe. (2019). Comparing speech motor control and motor impairment in fast syllable repetition tasks in patients with Parkinson’s disease with mild dysarthria. Conference on Phonetics & Phonology in German-Speaking Countries, P&P 15, Sept 26-27, 2019, Düsseldorf: HHU, Germany.
   
• Thies, T., Mücke, D., Lowit, A., Kalbe, E., Steffen, J. & M. Barbe. (2019). Cognitive skills and prominence production: Highlighting prominent elements in the speech of patients with Parkinson’s disease. Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language, May 24-25, 2019, Seoul, Korea.

2018

• Thies, T. (2018). Atypical Speech: Acoustics in Parkinsonians. Workshop on “Language and Dynamic Representations”, PCCM 5, 29-31 May 2018, Paris Diderot, France.

2017

• Mücke, D., Hermes, A. & T. Thies (2017). Discrete categories and continuous speech dynamics in typical and atypical speech: How much variability is tolerated by the phonological system? Oral presentation at IPS Workshop Abstraction, Diversity, and Speech Dynamics, May 3-5, 2017, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany.
   
• Hermes, A., Mücke D. & T. Thies (2017). Conflicting demands of complex timing patterns in Essential Tremor patients: When the realisation of a phonological constituent breaks down. Oral presentation at 14th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP), February 20-22, Düsseldorf, Germany.

2015

• Mücke, D. & A. Hermes (2015). What do we learn from atypical speech when linguistic constituents seem to be blurred? Oral presentation: Workshop on Dynamic Modelling, University of Cologne, June 11-12, 2015
   
• Barbe, M. (2015). The effects of VIM-DBS on tremor and speech. Oral presentation: Workshop on Dynamic Modelling, University of Cologne, June 11-12, 2015

Poster

2024

• Herbig, E., Thies, T., Barbe, M.T. & Mücke, D. (accepted) The Role of Cognitive Efficiency and Levodopa on Articulatory Timing. 13th International Seminar on Speech Production, May 13 - 17, 2024, Autrans, France.
• Thies, T. & Barbe, M.T. (accepted) Zusammenhang zwischen Motorsymptomatik und Sprechfunktionen bei M. Parkinson. Deutscher Kongress für Parkinson und Bewegungsstörung, April 25 - 27, 2024, Rostock, Germany.
• Tröger, J., Mallick, E., Röttgen, S., Baykara, E., Linz, N., Thies, T., Barbe, M.T. & Sommerauer, M. (accepted). Using acoustic speech biomarkers to detect isolated REM sleep behavior disorder. 18th International Conference on Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Diseases, March 5 -9, 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Thies, T., Schwed, L., Tröger, J., Baykara, E., Barbe, M.T. & Mücke, D. (accepted). Automatic analysis of levodopa-related changes in speech of Parkinson’s disease. Motor Speech Conference, February 21-24, 2024, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Thies, T. & Mefferd, A. (accepted). Interarticulatory timing patterns across talkers with various neurological conditions. Motor Speech Conference, February 21-24, 2024, San Diego, CA, USA.

2023

• Thies, T., Schreen, J., Jergas, H. & Barbe, M.T. (2023). Testing the applicability of the dysarthria analyzer to detect levodopa effects on speech in a German cohort of people with Parkinson’s disease. International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, August 27-31, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2022

• Thies, T., Geerts, N., Mücke, D., Seger, A., Barbe, M.T. & Sommerauer, M. (2022). Affected tongue movements in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder. International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, September 15-18, 2022, Madrid, Spain.
   
• Schreen, J., Thies, T., Hermes, A. & Mücke, D. (2022). Age-related changes on tongue body movements. 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, August 24-27, 2022, Groningen, Netherlands.
   
• Thies, T., Barbe, M.T., Visser-Vandewalle, V. & Mücke, D. (2022). Disease- and treatment-related changes of tongue body movements in Parkinson’s disease: An electromagnetic articulography study. 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, August 24-27, 2022, Groningen, Netherlands.
   
• Mücke, D., Mefferd, A., Thies, T., Roessig, S. & Hermes, A. (2022). Analysis and Modelling of Impaired Speech Movements: Challenges and Future Directions. 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, August 24-27, 2022, Groningen, Netherlands.
   
• Thies, T., Mücke, D. & Barbe, M.T. (2022). Der Einfluss von Levodopa und STN-THS auf Lippen- und Zungenbewegungen bei Patient:innen mit Morbus Parkinson. Deutscher Kongress für Parkinson und Bewegungsstörungen, 24. – 26. März 2022, Hannover, Deutschland.
   
• Geerts, N., Thies, T., Seger, A., Barbe, M.T. & Sommerauer, M. (2022). Sprechveränderungen bei Patienten mit einer idiopathischen REM-Schlaf-Verhaltensstörung auf akustischer Ebene. Deutscher Kongress für Parkinson und Bewegungsstörungen, 24. – 26. März 2022, Hannover, Deutschland.

2021

• Lowit, A., Thies, T., Roheger, M., Kalbe, E., Steffen, J. & Barbe, M.T. (2021). Syntactic impairment in Parkinson's Disease: cross-task differences and relationship to cognitive impairment. 18th Biennial Conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, 22 – 25 June 2021, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

   

2020

• Thies, T., Mücke, D., Dano, R. & M.T. Barbe. (2020). Correlation between levodopa response and acoustic parameters of prominence marking as well as tongue body movements in patients with Parkinson’s disease. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, ISSP 2020, December 14 –  17, 2020, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
   
• Thies, T., Mücke, D., Dano, R. & M.T. Barbe. (2020). Levodopa induced changes of tongue body movements during speech production. International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, September 12-16, 2020, Philadelphia, USA.
   
• Jergas, H., Petry-Schmelzer, J. N., Thies, T., Steffen, J., Dafsari, H.S., Mücke, D., Visser-Vandewalle, V., Dembek, T.A. & M.T. Barbe. (accepted). Increased Syllable Duration as a Marker for Dysarthria in Essential Tremor Patients with Deep Brain Stimulation. International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, September 12-16, 2020, Philadelphia, USA.
   
• Thies, T., Mücke, D., Dano, R. & M. T. Barbe. (2020). The impact of levodopa on acoustic parameters of prominence marking and tongue body movements in patients with Parkinson's disease. 2nd Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan, March 30-31, 2020, London: UCL, UK.

2019

• Thies, T., Mücke, D., Lowit, A., Steffen, J., Kalbe, E. & M. Barbe. (2019). Influence of cognitive abilities on prominence production in mild dysarthric patients with Parkinson’s disease. International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, September 22-26, 2019, Nice, France.
   
• Jergas, H., Petry-Schmelzer, J. N., Becker, J., Thies, T., Steffen, J., Visser-Vandewalle, V., Dembek, T. A. & M. Barbe. (2019). The origin of stimulation-induced dysarthria in ET patients after VIM/PSA-DBS: Atactic, spastic or both?. International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, September 22-26, 2019, Nice, France.
   
• Hermes, A., Mücke, D., Thies, T., & Barbe, M. T. (2019). Intragestural variation in natural sentence production: Essential Tremor patients treated with DBS. 20th Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech, September 15-19, 2019, Graz, Austria.

2018

• Thies, T., Mücke, D., Auris, B., Steffen, J. & M. Barbe. (2018). The Expression of Prosodic Prominence in Parkinsonian Speech. 2nd International Conference “Prominence in Language”, July 11-13, 2018, Cologne, Germany.
   
• Thies, T., Mücke, D., Auris, B, Lowit, A & M. Barbe. (2018). Prosodic prominence in Parkinsonian Speech: A dynamical approach. 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, June 19-22, 2018, Lisboa, Portugal.

2017

• Mücke, D., Hermes, A., Thies, T., Becker, J. & M. Barbe (2017). The loss of complex coupling modes in speech dynamics: An EMA study on Essential Tremor patients. 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, July 5-8, 2017, Groningen, Netherlands.
   
• Thies, T., Hermes, A. & D. Mücke (2017). Atypical speech production of Essential Tremor Patients. Poster presentation at 5^th International Winterschool on Speech Perception and Production: Learning and Memory, January 9 -13, 2017, Chorin, Germany.

2016

• Mücke, D., Hermes, A., Roettger, T., Becker, J. & M. Barbe (2016). How does deep brain stimulation affect regulation in speech motor control? 15th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, 13-16 July 2016, Ithaca, NY.
   
• Becker, J., Barbe, M. T., Röttger, T. B., Hartinger, M., Pochmann, J., Dembek, T. A., Wirths, J., Allert, N., Mücke, D., Meister, I. G., Visser-Vandewalle, V., Grice, M. & L. Timmermann (2016). The effect of uni- and bilateral thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation on speech in patients with Essential Tremor: production and perception. 20th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Berlin, June 19-23, 2016.
   
• Barbe, M., Mücke, D., Hermes, A., Röttger, T., Becker, J., Opitz, M., Dembek, T., Hartinger, M., Meister, I., Visser-Vandewalle, V., Grice, M. & L. Timmermann. (2016). Articulography reveals disturbed speech motor control in ET patients treated with VIM-DBS. 20th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Berlin, June 19-23, 2016.
   
• Mücke, D., Hermes, A., Barbe, M.T., Roettger, T.B. Niemann H., Becker, J., Hartinger, M., Meister, I., Visser-Vandewalle, V. Timmermann, L. & M. Grice. (2016). Regulation in speech motor control in ET patients treated with DBS: Kinematics of the lingual and the labial systems. 20th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Berlin, June 19-23, 2016.
   
• Hartinger, M., Scholz, M., Barbe, M., Mücke, D., Hermes, A., Röttger, T., Becker, J., Opitz, M., Dembek, T., Meister, I., Visser-Vandewalle, V., Grice, M. & L. Timmermann (2016). ICF-based effects of VIM-DBS on communication in everyday life in patients with essential tremor. 20th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Berlin, June 19-23, 2016.

2015

• Becker, J., D. Mücke, A. Hermes, T.A. Dembek, A.F. Josten, I. Meister, V. Visser-Vandewalle, M. Grice & L. Timmermann (2015). Rate-controlled syllable repetitions improve comparability of DBS-induced dysarthria between on- and off-state in patients with essential tremor. MDS 19th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, June 2015, San Diego.

2014

• Barbe, M.T., J. Becker, J. Pochmann, T.A. Dembek, J. Wirths, N. Allert, D. Mücke, I.G. Meister, V. Visser-Vandewalle, M. Grice and L. Timmermann (2014). "Severity of DBS-induced dysarthria in patients with essential tremor is associated with bilateral stimulation and laterally located electrodes." MDS 18th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Volume 29, June 2014, Stockholm.
   
• Becker, J., M. Barbe, J. Pochmann, T. Dembek, J. Wirths, N. Allert, D. Mücke, I. Meister, V. Visser-Vandewalle, M. Grice and L. Timmermann (2014). The effect of bilateral thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation on speech in patients with Essential Tremor - Predictors of severity of stimulation-induced deficits. MDS 18th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Volume 29, June 2014, Stockholm.