Exogenously triggered response inhibition in developmental stuttering

Kurt Eggers; Luc F De Nil; Bea R H Van den Bergh

doi:10.1016/j.jfludis.2018.02.001

Exogenously triggered response inhibition in developmental stuttering

J Fluency Disord. 2018 Jun:56:33-44. doi: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2018.02.001. Epub 2018 Feb 21.

Authors

Kurt Eggers¹, Luc F De Nil², Bea R H Van den Bergh³

Affiliations

¹ Dept. of Speech-Language Therapy, Thomas More University College, Belgium; Experimental Otorinolaryngology, Dept. of Neurosciences, University of Leuven, Belgium; Dept. of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Finland. Electronic address: kurt.eggers@thomasmore.be.
² Experimental Otorinolaryngology, Dept. of Neurosciences, University of Leuven, Belgium; Dept. of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: luc.denil@utoronto.ca.
³ Dept. of Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Dept. of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: bea.vdnbergh@tilburguniversity.edu.

PMID: 29494965
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2018.02.001

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Executive control; Response control; Stuttering; Temperament.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Child
Female
Humans
Male
Stuttering / diagnosis*
Stuttering / pathology