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Overview

Wolfram Ziegler is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research spans several interrelated fields and topics centered on the study of speech, language, and neurocognitive processes.

They have contributed to the fields of Psychology, Medicine, and Neuroscience, with a particular focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Speech and Hearing, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main research topics in their work include:

  • Voice and Speech Disorders
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Dysphagia Assessment and Management
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Stuttering Research and Treatment
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Wolfram Ziegler's recent publications showcase a focus on speech disorders and neurogenic conditions affecting speech production. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Age Norms for Auditory-Perceptual Neurophonetic Parameters: A Prerequisite for the Assessment of Childhood Dysarthria" (2020) in Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • "The prevalence of apraxia of speech in chronic aphasia after stroke: A bayesian hierarchical analysis" (2022) in Cortex
  • "Consensus Recommendations for Clinical Outcome Assessments and Registry Development in Ataxias: Ataxia Global Initiative (AGI) Working Group Expert Guidance" (2023) in The Cerebellum
  • "Intelligibility, Articulation Rate, Fluency, and Communicative Efficiency in Typically Developing Children" (2021) in Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • "Dysarthria syndromes in children with cerebral palsy" (2020) in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wolfram Ziegler include Theresa Schölderle, Elisabet Haas, Anja Staiger, Katharina Lehner, and Ingrid Aichert.

Their work has been published predominantly in venues such as the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, Brain Sciences, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Sprache · Stimme · Gehör, and Cortex.

Best Publications

  • Consensus Paper: Language and the Cerebellum: an Ongoing Enigma

    Peter Mariën;Herman Ackermann;Michael Adamaszek;Caroline H S Barwood

  • Leitlinien für Diagnostik und Therapie in der Neurologie

    H. C. Diener;C. Weimar;P. Berlit;G. Deuschl

  • Intensive speech and language therapy in patients with chronic aphasia after stroke: a randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint, controlled trial in a health-care setting

    Caterina Breitenstein;Tanja Grewe;Agnes Flöel;Wolfram Ziegler

  • Articulatory deficits in parkinsonian dysarthria: an acoustic analysis.

    H Ackermann;W Ziegler

  • Task-related factors in oral motor control: speech and oral diadochokinesis in dysarthria and apraxia of speech.

    Wolfram Ziegler

  • Brain mechanisms of acoustic communication in humans and nonhuman primates: An evolutionary perspective

    Hermann Ackermann;Steffen R. Hage;Wolfram Ziegler

  • Syllable frequency and syllable structure in apraxia of speech

    Ingrid Aichert;Wolfram Ziegler

  • The influence of syllable onset complexity and syllable frequency on speech motor control.

    Axel Riecker;Bettina Brendel;Wolfram Ziegler;Michael Erb

  • The role of the left mesial frontal cortex in fluent speech: evidence from a case of left supplementary motor area hemorrhage.

    Wolfram Ziegler;Beate Kilian;Karin Deger

  • Apraxia of speech.

    Wolfram Ziegler

  • Apraxia of speech: concepts and controversies.

    Wolfram Ziegler;Ingrid Aichert;Anja Staiger

  • Effectiveness of metrical pacing in the treatment of apraxia of speech

    Bettina Brendel;Wolfram Ziegler

  • Balance and motor speech impairment in essential tremor.

    Martin Kronenbuerger;Juergen Konczak;Wolfram Ziegler;Paul Buderath

  • Cognitive functions in patients with MR-defined chronic focal cerebellar lesions.

    Stefanie Richter;Stefanie Richter;Marcus Gerwig;Bakiye Aslan;Hans Wilhelm

  • Disturbed coarticulation in apraxia of speech: Acoustic evidence

    W. Ziegler;D. von Cramon

  • Spastic dysarthria after acquired brain injury: An acoustic study

    W. Ziegler;D. von Cramon

  • Non-verbal communication in severe aphasia: influence of aphasia, apraxia, or semantic processing?

    Katharina Hogrefe;Wolfram Ziegler;Nicole Weidinger;Georg Goldenberg

  • Speech timing in ataxic disorders Sentence production and rapid repetitive articulation

    Wolfram Ziegler;Karl Wessel

  • Anticipatory coarticulation in a patient with apraxia of speech.

    W. Ziegler;D. von Cramon

  • Syllable frequency and syllable structure in the spontaneous speech production of patients with apraxia of speech

    Anja Staiger;Wolfram Ziegler

Frequent Co-Authors

Hermann Ackermann
Hermann Ackermann University of Tübingen
Hans-Otto Karnath
Hans-Otto Karnath University of Tübingen
Georg Goldenberg
Georg Goldenberg Technical University of Munich
Dagmar Timmann
Dagmar Timmann University of Duisburg-Essen
Elke R. Gizewski
Elke R. Gizewski Innsbruck Medical University
Caterina Breitenstein
Caterina Breitenstein University of Münster
Georg Kerkhoff
Georg Kerkhoff Saarland University
Ingo Hertrich
Ingo Hertrich University of Tübingen
Walter Huber
Walter Huber RWTH Aachen University
Ludger Schöls
Ludger Schöls University of Tübingen

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