Weak responses to auditory feedback perturbation during articulation in persons who stutter: Evidence for abnormal auditory-motor transformation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Cai, Shanqing ^a,b   Beal, Deryk S ^a,b   Ghosh, Satrajit S ^b,c   Tiede, Mark K ^b,d   Guenther, Frank H ^a,e   Perkell, Joseph S ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST; STUTTERING; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LATENCY PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SPEECH; STUTTERING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864223622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041830     Document Type: Article

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