ArticleAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2019
Adults who stutter and metronome synchronization: evidence for a nonspeech timing deficit.
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- A Proof-of-Concept Study of Gamified Rhythmic Training in Preadolescents Who Stutter.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Trial
- An active inference account of stuttering behavior.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Subtle Patterns of Altered Responsiveness to Delayed Auditory Feedback during Finger Tapping in People Who Stutter.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Rhythmic tapping difficulties in adults who stutter: A deficit in beat perception, motor execution, or sensorimotor integration?PloS one · 2023Article
- The Relationship Between Auditory-Motor Integration, Interoceptive Awareness, and Self-Reported Stuttering Severity.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Article
- Structural brain network topological alterations in stuttering adults.Brain communications · 2022Article
- Verbal Response Inhibition in Adults Who Stutter.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2021Article
- Speech rate association with cerebellar white-matter diffusivity in adults with persistent developmental stuttering.Brain structure & function · 2021Article
- Neural Correlates of Vocal Pitch Compensation in Individuals Who Stutter.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- White matter correlates of sensorimotor synchronization in persistent developmental stuttering.Journal of communication disordersArticle
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Abstract
Speech timing deficits have been proposed as a causal factor in the disorder of stuttering. The question of whether individuals who stutter have deficits in nonspeech timing is one that has been revisited often, with conflicting results. Here, we uncover subtle differences in a manual metronome synchronization task that included tempo changes with adults who stutter and fluent speakers. We used sensitive circular statistics to examine both asynchrony and consistency in motor production. While both groups displayed a classic negative mean asynchrony (tapping before the beat), individuals who stutter anticipated the beat even more than their fluent peers, and their consistency was particularly affected at slow tempi. Surprisingly, individuals who stutter did not have problems with interval correction at tempo changes. We also examined the influence of music experience on synchronization behavior in both groups. While music perception and training were related to synchronization behavior in fluent participants, these correlations were not present for the stuttering group; however, one measure of stuttering severity (self-rated severity) was negatively correlated with music training. Overall, we found subtle differences in paced auditory-motor synchronization in individuals who stutter, consistent with a timing problem extending to nonspeech.
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