ArticleFrontiers in psychology2015
Non-verbal sensorimotor timing deficits in children and adolescents who stutter.
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- Musical rhythm abilities and risk for developmental speech-language problems and disorders: epidemiological and polygenic associations.Nature communications · 2025Pooled it
- A Proof-of-Concept Study of Gamified Rhythmic Training in Preadolescents Who Stutter.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Trial
- Can you beat the music? Validation of a gamified rhythmic training in children with ADHD.Behavior research methods · 2025Trial
- Distinct Rhythmic Competencies Identified via Internet-Based Assessment.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Linking spontaneous speech synchronization and cognitive abilities: evidence from a syllable-timed language.Psychological research · 2026Article
- A stuttering-associatedbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- An active inference account of stuttering behavior.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Auditory rhythm facilitates perception and action in children at risk for developmental coordination disorder.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Subtle Patterns of Altered Responsiveness to Delayed Auditory Feedback during Finger Tapping in People Who Stutter.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Mobile version of the Battery for the Assessment of Auditory Sensorimotor and Timing Abilities (BAASTA): Implementation and adult norms.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Unravelling individual rhythmic abilities using machine learning.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Timing Patterns in the Extended Basal Ganglia System.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Review
- A Preliminary Study of Speech Rhythm Differences as Markers of Stuttering Persistence in Preschool-Age Children.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Auditory feedback control in adults who stutter during metronome-paced speech I. Timing Perturbation.Journal of fluency disorders · 2023Article
- First school year tapping predicts children's third-grade literacy skills.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Studying rhythm processing in speech through the lens of auditory-motor synchronization.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Pre-stimulus beta power varies as a function of auditory-motor synchronization and temporal predictability.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Rhythmic tapping difficulties in adults who stutter: A deficit in beat perception, motor execution, or sensorimotor integration?PloS one · 2023Article
- Language acquisition and speech rhythm patterns: an auditory neuroscience perspective.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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Abstract
There is growing evidence that motor and speech disorders co-occur during development. In the present study, we investigated whether stuttering, a developmental speech disorder, is associated with a predictive timing deficit in childhood and adolescence. By testing sensorimotor synchronization abilities, we aimed to assess whether predictive timing is dysfunctional in young participants who stutter (8-16 years). Twenty German children and adolescents who stutter and 43 non-stuttering participants matched for age and musical training were tested on their ability to synchronize their finger taps with periodic tone sequences and with a musical beat. Forty percent of children and 90% of adolescents who stutter displayed poor synchronization with both metronome and musical stimuli, falling below 2.5% of the estimated population based on the performance of the group without the disorder. Synchronization deficits were characterized by either lower synchronization accuracy or lower consistency or both. Lower accuracy resulted in an over-anticipation of the pacing event in participants who stutter. Moreover, individual profiles revealed that lower consistency was typical of participants that were severely stuttering. These findings support the idea that malfunctioning predictive timing during auditory-motor coupling plays a role in stuttering in children and adolescents.
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