A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Exogenously triggered response inhibition in developmental stuttering
Authors: Kurt Eggers, Luc F. De Nil, Bea R.H. Van den Bergh
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Publication year: 2018
Journal: Journal of Fluency Disorders
Journal name in source: Journal of Fluency Disorders
Volume: 56
First page : 33
Last page: 44
ISSN: 0094-730X
eISSN: 1873-801X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2018.02.001
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to examine relations between children’s exogenously triggered response inhibition and stuttering.
Method: Participants were 18 children who stutter (CWS; mean age = 9;01 years) and 18 children who not stutter (CWNS; mean age = 9;01 years). Participants were matched on age (±3 months) and gender. Response inhibition was assessed by a stop signal task (Verbruggen, Logan, & Stevens, 2008).
Results: Results suggest that CWS, compared to CWNS, perform comparable to CWNS in a task where response control is externally triggered.
Conclusions: Our findings seem to indicate that previous questionnaire-based findings (Eggers, De Nil, & Van den Bergh, 2010) of a decreased efficiency of response inhibition cannot be generalized to all types of response inhibition.
