Relation between functional connectivity and rhythm discrimination in children who do and do not stutter.

ABSTRACT: Our ability to perceive and produce rhythmic patterns in the environment supports fundamental human capacities ranging from music and language processing to the coordination of action. This article considers whether spontaneous correlated brain activity within a basal ganglia-thalamocortical (rhythm) network is associated with individual differences in auditory rhythm discrimination. Moreover, do children who stutter with demonstrated deficits in rhythm perception have weaker links between rhythm network functional connectivity and rhythm discrimination? All children in the study underwent a resting-state fMRI session, from which functional connectivity measures within the rhythm network were extracted from spontaneous brain activity. In a separate session, the same children completed an a

SUBMITTER: Chang SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5008055 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature