Examining speech disfluency through the analysis of grey matter densities in 5-year-olds using voxel-based morphometry
Ashmeet Jolly, Elmo Pulli, Henry Railo, Elina Mainela-Arnold, Jetro Tuulari · FENS Forum 2024
The aim of this study was to investigate whether grey matter densities (GMD) in the brain associate with speech disfluency in 120 (65M, 55F) 5-year-old children. Speech disfluency, which was quantified via audio recordings, was measured as a continuous variable, covering a broad spectrum of disfluencies observed in a sample of children participating in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort study. Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) of the whole brain was utilised to examine the associations between GMD and speech disfluency. We found negative associations between
ePoster · Neuroscience