Publications of Bettina Brendel


Journal articles

Brendel B., Erb M., Riecker A., Grodd W., Ackermann A. & Ziegler W. (2011). Do we have a mental syllabary in the brain? An fMRI study. Motor Control, 15(1), 34-51.

Brendel B. & Ackermann H. (2010). Sprechplanungsprozesse in der Bildgebung. Sprache Stimme Gehör, 34, 133 – 138.

Brendel B., Hertrich I., Erb M., Lindner A., Riecker A., Grodd W. & Ackermann A. (2010). The contribution of mesiofrontal cortex to the preparation and execution of repetitive syllable productions: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 50, 1219-1230.

Riecker A., Brendel B., Ziegler W., Erb M. & Ackermann A. (2008). The influence of syllable onset complexity and syllable frequency on speech motor control. Brain and Language, 107 (2), 102 – 113.

Brendel B. & Ziegler W. (2008). Effectiveness of metrical pacing in the treatment of apraxia of speech. Aphasiology, 22, 77-102.

Lowit A., Brendel B., Dobinson C. & Howell P. (2006). An investigation into the influences of age, pathology and cognition on speech production. Journal of Medical Speech and Language Pathology, 14, 253 – 262.

Brendel B., Lowit A. & Howell P. (2005). The effects of delayed and frequency shifted feedback on speakers with Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Medical Speech and Language Pathology, 12, 4, 131-138.

Lowit A., Howell P. & Brendel B. (2005). Cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s Disease – is it a unified phenomenon? Journal of Brain Impairment, 6, 3, 191-204.

Lowit A. & Brendel B. (2004). The Response of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease to DAF and FSF. Stammering Research, 1, 58-61.

Brendel B., Ziegler W. & Deger K. (2000). The Synchronization Paradigm in the Treatment of Apraxia of Speech. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 13, 254 – 257.


Book chapters

Brendel B. & Aichert I. (in press). German contribution to acquired motor speech disorders. In: N. Miller & A. Lowit (eds.), Motor Speech Disorders: A Cross Language and Bilingual Perspective.

Brendel B. & Ziegler W. (2011). Sprechapraxie. In: J. Siegmüller & H. Bartels (Hrsg.), Sprach-, Sprech- und Stimmtherapie. Elsevier, München (3. Auflage).

Brendel B. & Ackermann H. (2009). Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS): An incidental “speech talent” following acquired brain damage. In: G. Dogil & S.M. Reiterer (Eds.), Language Talent and the Brain. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin – New York.

Ziegler W. & Brendel B. (2003). Sprechapraxie. In: M. Grohnfeldt (Hrsg.), Lehrbuch der Sprach-heilpädagogik und Logopädie, Band 4. Verlag Kohlhammer, Stuttgart.

Brendel B. & Ziegler W. (2002). Das Synchronisationsverfahren in der Therapie der Sprechapraxie. In: W. Huber, P.-W. Schönle, P. Weber. & R. Wiechers (Hrsg.), Computer helfen heilen und leben. Computer in der neurologischen Rehabilitation. Hippocampus Verlag, Bad Honnef.


Conference Proceedings

Brendel B., Schölderle T., Lindig T., Synofzik M., Schöls L., Ackermann H. & Ziegler W. (2011). Dysarthria in patients with Friedreich’s ataxia and spinocerebellar ataxia. Movement Disorder, 26, Supplement 2: S2.

Brendel B., Schölderle T., Ackermann A. & Ziegler W. (2011). Speech motor deficits in hereditary cerebellar degeneration. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 17, Supplement p. 47.

Weber S., Erb M., Klose U. & Brendel B. (2011). Reliability and sequence effects on activation patterns of fMRI measurements during a speech motor task. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, MAGMA, 24 (Suppl. 1, Abstracts ESMRMB 2011), p. 64.

Klose U., Batra M., Bender B., Erb M. & B. Brendel (2011). Evaluation of clinical fMRI measurements considering individual influences on the response function. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, MAGMA, Suppl. (Abstracts ESMRMB 2011).

Klose U., Batra M., Bender B., Erb M. & B. Brendel (2011). Auswertung klinischer fMRI-Messungen mittels Korrelation mit regionspezifischen Antwortfunktionen. In: H. Bergmann(Hrsg.): Medizinische Physik 2011, p. 60, Wien.

Brendel B., Ziegler W., Erb M., Riecker A. & Ackermann A. (2008). Does our brain house a mental syllabary? An fMRI study. In: R. Sock, S. Fuchs, Y. Laprie (eds.): Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Speech Production, pp. 73-76.

Brendel B. & Ziegler W. (2001). Articulatory Synchronisation in the Treatment of Apraxia of Speech. In: B. Maassen, W. Hulstijn, R.D. Kent, H.F.M. Peters, P.H.H.M. van Lieshout (eds.): Speech Motor Control in Normal and Disordered Speech. Proceedings of the 4th International Nijmegen Speech Motor Conference, pp. 175-177. Nijmegen University Press. Nijmegen.

Aichert I, Ziegler W., Deger K. & Brendel B. (2001). The syllable in apraxia of speech. In: B. Maassen, W. Hulstijn, R.D. Kent, H.F.M. Peters, P.H.H.M. van Lieshout (eds.): Speech Motor Control in Normal and Disordered Speech. Proceedings of the 4th International Nijmegen Speech Motor Conference, pp. 167-170. Nijmegen University Press. Nijmegen.


Diagnostic tools

Liepold M., Ziegler W. & Brendel B. (2003). Hierarchische Wortlisten. Ein Nachsprechtest für die Sprechapraxiediagnostik. EKN – Materialien für die Rehabilitation (13). Borgmann publishing.