Beyond production: Brain responses during speech perception in adults who stutter.

ABSTRACT: Developmental stuttering is a speech disorder that disrupts the ability to produce speech fluently. While stuttering is typically diagnosed based on one's behavior during speech production, some models suggest that it involves more central representations of language, and thus may affect language perception as well. Here we tested the hypothesis that developmental stuttering implicates neural systems involved in language perception, in a task that manipulates comprehensibility without an overt speech production component. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signals in adults who do and do not stutter, while they were engaged in an incidental speech perception task. We found that speech perception evokes stronger activation in ad

SUBMITTER: Halag-Milo T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4893016 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature