Behavioral and multimodal neuroimaging evidence for a deficit in brain timing networks in stuttering: A hypothesis and theory

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUNE, 2014, Pages

  Etchell, Andrew C ^a,b   Johnson, Blake W ^a   Sowman, Paul F ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Cerebellum; Rhythm; Speech; Stuttering; Tapping; Timing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CEREBELLUM; EXTERNAL TIMING NETWORK; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTERNAL TIMING NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STUTTERING; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84940363586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00467     Document Type: Article

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