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ERIC Number: EJ1281077
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Nov
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1092-4388
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Cognitive Flexibility for Semantic and Perceptual Information in Developmental Stuttering
Anderson, Julie D.; Wagovich, Stacy A.; Ofoe, Levi
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, v63 n11 p3659-3679 Nov 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine cognitive flexibility for semantic and perceptual information in preschool children who stutter (CWS) and who do not stutter (CWNS). Method: Participants were 44 CWS and 44 CWNS between the ages of 3;0 and 5;11 (years;months). Cognitive flexibility was measured using semantic and perceptual categorization tasks. In each task, children were required to match a target object with two different semantic or perceptual associates. Main dependent variables were reaction time and accuracy. Results: The accuracy with which CWS and CWNS shifted between one semantic and perceptual representation to another was similar, but the CWS did so significantly more slowly. Both groups of children had more difficulty switching between perceptual representations than semantic ones. Conclusion: CWS are less efficient (slower), though not less accurate, than CWNS in their ability to switch between different representations in both the verbal and nonverbal domains.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Missouri; Indiana
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Test of Early Language Development; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation
Grant or Contract Numbers: R01DC012517