Kate Emma Watkins

This study investigates temporal organisation of hand action selection in people who stutter (PWS) compared to typically fluent speakers (TFS) using MEG, finding weaker mu/beta modulation during high uncertainty periods.

This study examines neural correlates of pseudoword repetition and learning in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) using fMRI, finding reduced default-mode network suppression and hemispheric specialisation in DLD.

This study identifies hierarchical neural signatures of language by linking semantic and phonological processing to brain networks using fMRI, myelin measures, and AI models.

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.

This study compares two fMRI methods for measuring language lateralisation and finds the mirror method provides better agreement with fTCD results and more reliable lateralisation.

This study examines microstructural properties of cerebellar peduncles in children with developmental language disorder using diffusion-weighted imaging and finds reduced fractional anisotropy in the inferior cerebellar peduncles.

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

This study compares cortical surface area and thickness between children with developmental language disorder and controls, finding reduced surface area in specific brain regions but no differences in thickness or asymmetry.

The paper uses quantitative MRI to find reduced myelin in specific brain regions of children with DLD compared to typically developing children.

The paper examines the relationship between morphology in the central and subcentral motor cortex and functional activity during movement of different effectors, showing inter-individual variability and its impact on functional localization.

This study investigates how language experience shapes auditory-motor speech processing asymmetries using TMS and EEG in tonal and non-tonal language speakers.

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.

This study investigates whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) affects performance on a tongue twister task in healthy young adults and finds no significant modulation of task performance or motor excitability.

This study maps human laryngeal motor cortex during vocalization and identifies two distinct larynx representations, confirming one is in primary motor cortex while the other's location remains uncertain.

The paper shows that altering auditory feedback of a single formant leads to coupled changes in both formants during speech production, suggesting a strategy to maintain speech within existing vowel categories.

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

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.

This study uses tDCS to show that motor cortex and cerebellum have distinct roles in sensorimotor learning during speech production, with motor cortex driving movement pattern adaptation and cerebellum focusing on error correction.