Auditory feedback control in adults who stutter during metronome-paced speech I. Timing Perturbation.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study determined whether adults who stutter (AWS) exhibit deficits in responding to an auditory feedback timing perturbation, and whether external timing cues, which increase fluency, attenuate any disruptions due to altered temporal auditory feedback.

Methods

Fifteen AWS and sixteen adults who do not stutter (ANS) read aloud a multisyllabic sentence either with normal pacing or with each syllable paced at the rate of a metronome. On random trials, an auditory feedback timing perturbation was applied, and timing responses were compared between groups and pacing conditions.

Results

Both groups responded to the timing perturbation by delaying subsequent syllable boundaries, and there were no significant differences between groups in either pacing condition.

SUBMITTER: Frankford SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9974758 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature