Early-stage chunking of finger tapping sequences by persons who stutter and fluent speakers

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-84

  Smits Bandstra, Sarah ^a   De Nil, Luc F ^b  

^a ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chunking; Finger tapping; Practise; Sequence; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; FINGER; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH THERAPY; STUTTERING;

EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FINGERS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH THERAPY; STUTTERING;

EID: 84871204526     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699206.2012.746397     Document Type: Article

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