Brain lateralization and severity of stuttering in children

• Authors: Elzbieta Szelag , Danuta Garwarska-Kolek , Anna Herman
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Cerebral lateralization in visual perception was investigated in 9 severe stuttering, 11 mild stuttering and 48 fluent speakers. The subjects were asked to identify words presented in the left or right visual field for 20 ms. Children responded by pointing to the exposed test word on a response card which contained four different words. Errors commited in the left and right visual fields were analyzed. The data showed a left hemisphere superiority in the processing of words in both the mild stutterers and the fluent speakers, but a right hemisphere advantage in the severe stutterers. The results suggest a close relationship between the severity of stuttering and functional brain organization.

Keywords

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HEMISPHERIC ASYMMETRY; MILD STUTTERING; SEVERE STUTTERING

Discipline

• EXPERIMENTAL_BIOLOGY_&_MEDICINE: EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY & MEDICINE

• Publisher: Marceli Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
• Year: 1993
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 263-267

Contributors

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Elzbieta Szelag

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Danuta Garwarska-Kolek

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Anna Herman

• Document Type: paper