Choral speech: The amelioration of stuttering via imitation and the mirror neuronal system

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 339-347

  Kalinowski, Joseph ^a   Saltuklaroglu, Tim ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluency; Gestures; Inhibition; Perception; Speech; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GESTURE; HUMAN; IMITATION; INFANCY; LANGUAGE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH THERAPY; STUTTERING; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0042735082     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(03)00063-0     Document Type: Review

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