Jennifer Chesters

Differences in brain activity during sentence repetition in people who stutter: a combined analysis of four fMRI studies

This study pools fMRI data from four studies to compare brain activity during sentence repetition in people who stutter and fluent controls, finding some group differences at uncorrected thresholds.

No Evidence of Altered Language Laterality in People Who Stutter across Different Brain Imaging Studies of Speech and Language

This study examines language lateralization in people who stutter using fMRI and finds no evidence of altered lateralization compared to typically fluent speakers.

An fMRI study of initiation and inhibition of manual responses in people who stutter

This study uses fMRI to compare neural activity during response initiation and inhibition in people who stutter versus typically fluent individuals, finding overactivity in PWS during initiation but not inhibition.

Facilitation of motor excitability during listening to spoken sentences is not modulated by noise or semantic coherence

This study investigates how noise and semantic coherence affect motor cortex excitability during speech listening and finds no modulation by these factors.

Transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal cortex improves speech fluency in adults who stutter

This study investigates whether tDCS over left inferior frontal cortex combined with speech fluency training improves speech fluency in adults who stutter, finding significant improvements at 1 week post-intervention.