Dr. Ludo Max

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University of Connecticut
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Communication Sciences
Laboratory for Speech Physiology and Motor Control
Associate Professor
Haskins Laboratories
Research Affiliate
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Mailing Address

University of Connecticut
Department of Communication Sciences
850 Bolton Road, Unit 1085
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-1085
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (860) 486-4078
Fax: (860) 486-5422
ludo.max@uconn.edu
http://www.cdis.uconn.edu/lab/lspmc

Qualifications

Ph.D., Kent State University, Speech Pathology (related areas: (1) Motor Control, (2) Neuroscience), 2000.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Kinematics, Kinesiology, Neuroscience, Physiology, Speech and Language Disorders, Speech Pathology.

Additional Terms:

Electromyography, Kinematics, Limb Motor Control, Motor Control, Movement-Related Cortical Potentials, Neural Control of Movement, Sensorimotor Adaptation, Sensorimotor Integration, Speech Motor Control, Stuttering.

Memberships

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
International Society of Motor Control
Society for Neuroscience
Society for the Neural Control of Movement

Previous Positions

1998-2000, Assistant Professor, Seton Hall University, School of Graduate Medical Education, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

Funding Received

  • National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders: Neural control and sensorimotor mechanisms in stuttering (P.I.; consortium with Haskins Laboratories), $1,903,281, 2006 to 2011.
  • Thrasher Research Fund: Neural maturation in children with persistent developmental stuttering: Electrophysiological studies of central auditory pathway activation from brain stem to cortex (P.I.; co-P.I.: Frank E. Musiek), $218,742, 2006 to 2008.
  • The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation: Neurological bases of stuttering: Motor learning and control (P.I.), $217,902, 2006 to 2007.
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb: A pilot study of the efficacy and safety of Aripiprazole in the treatment of stuttering (co-PI), 2004 to 2005.
  • National Organization for Hearing Research: Toward an understanding of how deaf and hearing-impaired individuals can learn, maintain, and refine internal models for high-precision speech motor control (PI), 2003 to 2004.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): From babbling to linguistically-relevant articulatory gestures: Developmental continuity of speech motor organization in infants and young children (PI) (doctoral dissertation grant for Margaret M. Earnest), 2002 to 2004.
  • University of Connecticut Research Foundation: Coordination of oral and laryngeal speech movements in individuals who stutter (PI), 2001 to 2001.
  • University of Connecticut Research Foundation: Measuring movement-related cerebral potentials in physiological investigations of orofacial speech and nonspeech movements: A series of pilot studies (PI), 2001 to 2002.
  • Stichting Logopedie Fonds, Belgium: Adaptation of stuttering frequency after solo versus unison readings (co-PI), 1995 to 1996.

Publications

  • Max L, Corbera S, Central modulation of sensory processing during movement planning., (in Preparation), 1
  • Max L, Wallace ME, Adaptive Sensorimotor Control of Speech During Altered Auditory Feedback, (in Preparation), 1
  • Wallace ME, Max L, Feng YQ, Effects of Triceps Brachii Tendon Vibration on Kinematic and Electromygraphic Aspects of Mechanically Constrained and Unconstrained Arm Postures, (in Preparation), 1
  • Feng Y, Max L, Hao GJ, Xue SA, Anticipatory Effects in the Release of the Articulatory Obstruction for Voiceless Stop Consonants: Spectral Moment Analyses, Submitted, 1
  • Max L, Gracco VL (2005) Coordination of oral and laryngeal movements in the perceptually fluent speech of adults who stutter., 48 (3), 524-42 Abstract
  • Balasubramanian V, Max L, Crossed apraxia of speech: a case report, Brain and Cognition, 55(2), 240-6, July 2004 Abstract
  • Balasubramanian, V., Max, L, Hemispheric processing of prosody, In J. Syka & M.M. Merzenich (Ed.), Plasticity of the central auditory system and processing of complex acoustic signals (pp. 235-240). London: Kluwer-Plenum, 2004
  • Max, L., Gracco, V. L., Guenther, F. H., Ghosh, S., Wallace, M. E, A sensorimotor model of stuttering: Insights from the neuroscience of motor control, In A. Packman, A. Meltzer, & H.F.M. Peters al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Fluency Disorders (pp. 353-360). Nijmegen: University of Nijmegen, 2004
  • Max, L, Stuttering and internal models for sensorimotor control: A theoretical perspective to generate testable hypotheses, In B. Maassen, R. Kent, H. F. M. Peters, P. van Lieshout, & W. Hulstijn (Eds.), Speech motor control in normal and disordered speech (pp. 357-388). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004
  • Max, L., Gracco, V.L., Caruso, A.J., Kinematic event sequencing in stuttering and nonstuttering adults, In A. Packman, A. Meltzer, & H.F.M. Peters al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Fluency Disorders (pp. 315-322). Nijmegen, The Netherlands: University of Nijmegen Press, 2004
  • Max, L., Guenther, F. H., Gracco, V. L., Ghosh, S. S., Wallace, M. E., Unstable or insufficiently activated internal models and feedback-biased motor control as sources of dysfluency: A theoretical model of stuttering, Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 31, 105-122, 2004
  • Max, L., Yudman, E. M., Understanding stuttering will require theoretical models that fit the data rather than efforts to make the data fit the preferred models: A response to Howell [Reply to Letter to the Editor], Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004
  • Balasubramanian V, Max L, Van Borsel J, Rayca KO, Richardson D, Acquired stuttering following right frontal and bilateral pontine lesion: a case study, Brain and Cognition, 53(2), 185-9, November 2003 Abstract
  • Max L, Yudman EA, Accuracy and variability of isochronous rhythmic timing across motor systems in stuttering versus nonstuttering individuals, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : Jslhr, 46(1), 146-63, February 2003 Abstract
  • Max L, Caruso AJ, Gracco VL, Kinematic analyses of speech, orofacial nonspeech, and finger movements in stuttering and nonstuttering adults, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : Jslhr, 46(1), 215-32, February 2003 Abstract
  • Max, L., Wallace, M.E., Vincent, I., Sensorimotor adaptation to auditory perturbations during speech: Acoustic and kinematic experiments, In M.J. Solé, D. Recasens, & J. Romero (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1053-1056), 2003
  • Earnest, M. M., Max, L., En route to the three-dimensional registration and analysis of speech movements: Instrumental techniques for the study of articulatory kinematics, Contemporary Issues in Communication Sciences and Disorders, 30, 5-25, 2003
  • Earnest MM, Max L, Maxillary and mandibular morphometry and the relation to articulatory kinematics, In B Maassen, W Hulstijn, R Kent, HFM Peters, & PHHM van Lieshout (Eds.), Speech motor control in normal and disordered speech, 134-137, 2001
  • Max L, Stuttering as a neuromotor disorder: Identifying the mechanisms, In B Maassen, W Hulstijn, R Kent, HFM Peters, & PHHM van Lieshout (Eds.), Speech motor control in normal and disordered speech, 134-137, 2001
  • Max L, Glass N, Relative timing of oral and laryngeal speech movements in individuals who stutter, In HG Bosshardt, JS Yaruss, & HFM Peters (Eds.), Fluency Disorders: Theory, research, treatment and self-help, 78-82, 2001
  • Max, L., Onghena, P., Defining experimental units: Agreement awaiting implementation -- Response to Johnson [Reply to Letter to the Editor], Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43, 1291-1293, 2000
  • Max L, Onghena P, Some issues in the statistical analysis of completely randomized and repeated measures designs for speech, language, and hearing research, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42(2), 261-70, April 1999 Abstract
  • Max L, Kinematics of lip and jaw closing movements during bilabial stop consonant production: Effects of utterance length and word position, Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2423-2424), August 1999, San Francisco, 1999
  • Caruso AJ, Max L, McClowry TM, Perspectives on stuttering as a motor speech disorder, In AJ Caruso & EA Strand (Eds.), Clinical management of motor speech disorders in children (pp. 319-344). New York: Thieme, 1999
  • Max L, Caruso AJ, Adaptation of stuttering frequency during repeated readings: associated changes in acoustic parameters of perceptually fluent speech, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 41(6), 1265-81, December 1998 Abstract
  • Max L, Caruso AJ, Acoustic measures of temporal intervals across speaking rates: variability of syllable- and phrase-level relative timing, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 40(5), 1097-110, October 1997 Abstract
  • Caruso AJ, Max L, Effects of aging on neuromotor processes of swallowing, Seminars in Speech and Language, 18(2), 181-92, May 1997 Abstract
  • Caruso AJ, McClowry MT, Max L, Age-related effects on speech fluency, Seminars in Speech and Language, 18(2), 171-9; quiz 179-80, May 1997 Abstract
  • Max L, De Bruyn W, Steurs W, Intelligibility of oesophageal and tracheo-oesophageal speech: preliminary observations, European Journal of Disorders of Communication, 32(4), 429-40, 1997 Abstract
  • Max L, Caruso AJ, Motor learning and stuttering: Perceptual, acoustic, and kinematic analyses, In EC Healey & HFM Peters (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second World Congress on Fluency Disorders (pp. 51-53), San Francisco, CA, 1997
  • Max L, Caruso AJ, Cognitive stress and stuttering: An experimental paradigm for connected speech, Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 25, 65-75, 1997
  • Caruso AJ, Max L, Applications of motor learning theory to stuttering research, In W Hulstijn, HFM Peters & PHHM Van Lieshout (Eds.), Speech production: Motor control, brain research and fluency disorders (pp. 213-220). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1997
  • Max L, Caruso AJ, Vandevenne A, Decreased stuttering frequency during repeated readings: A motor learning perspective, Journal of Fluency Disorders, 21, 1-17, 1997
  • Max L, Caruso AJ, Contemporary techniques for establishing fluency in the treatment of adults who stutter, Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 24, 45-52, 1997
  • Max L, Mueller PB, Speaking Fo and cepstral periodicity analysis of conversational speech in a 105-year-old woman: variability of aging effects, Journal of Voice, 10(3), 245-51, September 1996 Abstract
  • Max L, Steurs W, de Bruyn W, Vocal capacities in esophageal and tracheoesophageal speakers, Laryngoscope, 106(1 Pt 1), 93-6, January 1996 Abstract

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