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

Authors

  • José Ferrari Neto Universidade Federal da Paraíba – UFPB, João Pessoa, BR
  • Débora Vasconcelos Correia Universidade Federal da Paraíba – UFPB, João Pessoa, BR

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2014v11n3p218

Abstract

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.

Author Biographies

José Ferrari Neto, Universidade Federal da Paraíba – UFPB, João Pessoa, BR

Professor Adjunto II de Linguística e Língua Portuguesa na Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), atuando no LAPROL (Laboratório de Processamento Linguístico).

Débora Vasconcelos Correia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba – UFPB, João Pessoa, BR

Professora assistente do Curso de Fonoaudiologia da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) e do Centro Universitário de João Pessoa (UNIPÊ).

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Published

2014-09-20

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Vol. 11 No. 3 (2014): Psicolinguística: estudos recentes em aquisição e processamento da linguagem

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