Procedural memory and language: a study with Brazilian Portuguese stuttering speakers

Autor: José Ferrari Neto, Débora Vasconcelos Correia
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Fórum Linguístico, Vol 11, Iss 3, Pp 218-233 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1415-8698
1984-8412
DOI: 10.5007/1984-8412.2014v11n3p218
Popis: This paper shows the results of an experimental study about both stutters and fluent speakers´s procedural memory in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), from the relation among Alm´s Double Pre-Motor Model (ALM, 2005) and Ullmann´s Declarative/Procedural Model (ULMANN, 2001). It is proposed a hypothesis about the connection between the presence of mnemonic disfunctions and the stutters´s linguistics processing. The results obtained through ASRT Test (Alternating Serial Reaction Time) suggested an increase of reaction times as the number of cycles (stimuli) was augmented. This can be a possible difficulty to implicit learning of motor sequences. On the other hand, the fluent speakers showed a reduction of reaction times as the number of cycles augmented, confirming that, to this group, procedural learning happened in a faster way.
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