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Representative PublicationsAbbs, J. H. & Gracco, V. L. (1983). Sensorimotor actions in the control of multimovement speech gestures. Trends in Neurosciences, 6(9), 391-395.
Abbs, J. H. & Gracco, V. L. (1984). Control of complex motor gestures: Orofacial muscle responses to load perturbations of the lip during speech. Journal of Neurophysiology, 51(4), 705-723.
Gracco, V. L. & Abbs, J. H. (1985). Dynamic control of the perioral system during speech: Kinematic analyses of autogenic and nonautogenic sensorimotor processes. Journal of Neurophysiology, 54(2), 418-432.
Gracco, V. L. & Abbs, J. H. (1986). Variant and invariant characteristics of speech movements. Experimental Brain Research, 65(1), 156-166.
Caruso, A. J., Abbs, J. H. & Gracco, V. L. (1988). Kinematic analysis of multiple movement coordination during speech in stutterers. Brain, 111, 439-455.
Gracco, V. L. & Abbs, J. H. (1988). Central patterning of speech movements. Experimental Brain Research, 71, 515-526.
Gracco, V. L. (1988). Timing factors in the coordination of speech movements. Journal of Neuroscience, 8(12), 4629-4639.
Gracco, V. L. & Abbs, J. H. (1989). Sensorimotor characteristics of speech motor sequences. Experimental Brain Research, 75, 586-598.
Connor, N., Abbs, J. H., Cole, K. J. & Gracco, V. L. (1989). Parkinsonian deficits in serial multiarticulate movements for speech. Brain, 112, 997-1009.
Gracco, V. L. & Löfqvist, A. (1994). Speech motor organization and control: Evidence from lip, jaw, and laryngeal interactions. Journal of Neuroscience, 14, 6585-6597.
Ostry, D.J., Gribble, P.L. & Gracco, V. L. (1996). Coarticulation of jaw movements in speech production: Is context sensitivity in speech kinematics centrally planned? Journal of Neuroscience, 16(4), 1570-1579.
Shaiman, S., & Gracco, V. L. (2002). Task-specific sensorimotor interactions in speech production. Experimental Brain Research, 146, 411-418.
Gracco, V.L., Tremblay, P, & Pike, G. B. (2005). Imaging speech production using fMRI. NeuroImage. 26, 294-301.
Tremblay, P, & Gracco, VL (2006). Contribution of the frontal lobe to externally and internally specified verbal responses: fMRI evidence. NeuroImage, 33, 947-957.
Beal, D, Gracco, VL, Lafaille, S.J, & DeNil, LF (2007). A VBM study of grey and white matter brain differences in people who stutter. NeuroReport, 18(12), 1102-1110.
DeNil, LF, Beal, DS, Lafaille, SJ, Kroll, RM, Crawley, AP, & Gracco, VL (2008). The effects of simulated stuttering and prolonged speech on neural activation patterns of stuttering and nonstuttering speakers. Brain and Language, 107(2), 114-123.
Shiller, D, Sato, M, Gracco, VL, & Baum, SR (2009). Perceptual recalibration of speech sounds following speech motor learning. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125(2), 1103-1113.
Tremblay, P, & Gracco, VL (2009). The essential role of the pre-SMA in the production of words and non-speech oral motor gestures, as revealed by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). Brain Research, 1268, 112-24.
Sato, M, Tremblay, P, & Gracco, VL (2009). A mediating role of the premotor cortex in phoneme segmentation. Brain and Language, 111-1-7.
Tremblay, P, & Gracco, VL (in press). On the selection of words and oral motor responses: evidence of a response-independent fronto-parietal network. Cortex.
