An interventional study of Rhythm discrimination in Stuttering, Childhood and Stuttering, sponsored by University of Michigan. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 9 Years to 13 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-10-23.
Sponsored by University of Michigan · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science
The specific purpose of this clinical trial is to compare performance on rhythm perception and production tasks between children who stutter and children who do not stutter. The overall project also aims to investigate how performance on rhythm tasks may be related to brain activity (non-clinical trial).
Participants in the clinical trial portion of this study will complete rhythm discrimination and finger tapping experiments once a year for 3 years. The study team will compare performance between groups. Participants will also participate in the non-trial portion of the project that includes having magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) each year for 3 years.
Inclusion Criteria Children who stutter:
Inclusion Criteria Children who do not stutter:
Exclusion Criteria Children who stutter:
Exclusion Criteria Children who do not stutter:
Children who stutter
Behavioral: Rhythm discrimination
Children who do not stutter
Behavioral: Rhythm discrimination
Participants will complete a rhythm discrimination task once per year for 3 years.
Rhythm discrimination (d')
Performance on the rhythm discrimination task will be assessed using a signal detection analysis to distinguish between participants' ability to discriminate same and different rhythms from any general tendency to respond same or different. Hit rates (HRs) and false alarm rates (FARs) will be obtained to calculate d' (a measure of sensitivity; determined by z(HR) - z(FAR)).
Time frame: Year 1
Rhythm discrimination (d')
Performance on the rhythm discrimination task will be assessed using a signal detection analysis to distinguish between participants' ability to discriminate same and different rhythms from any general tendency to respond same or different. Hit rates (HRs) and false alarm rates (FARs) will be obtained to calculate d' (a measure of sensitivity; determined by z(HR) - z(FAR)).
Time frame: Year 2
Rhythm discrimination (d')
Performance on the rhythm discrimination task will be assessed using a signal detection analysis to distinguish between participants' ability to discriminate same and different rhythms from any general tendency to respond same or different. Hit rates (HRs) and false alarm rates (FARs) will be obtained to calculate d' (a measure of sensitivity; determined by z(HR) - z(FAR)).
Time frame: Year 3
Plan to share: No
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