About this trial
The goal of this clinical trial is to examine whether stuttering is associated with a tendency to attend more quickly or for longer durations to threat-related information in the environment (threat-related attention bias). The main questions it aims to answer are:
Do adults who stutter, relative to adults who do not stutter, attend to threat-related stimuli more than neutral information? Are attentional biases observed across different types of threat or are they specific to threats related to stuttering experiences? Do measures of attention bias explain individual differences in psychological reactions among adults who stutter?
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Speaks English as their primary language
Normal hearing (based on pure tone screening)
Normal or corrected vision (based on report)
Normal color vision (based on Ishihara Test, Concise Edition)
Disqualifiers
Reported significant medical history
Psychological or emotional disorder
History of frank neurological injury
Known speech, language, or learning disorder(s) other than stuttering
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Threat-related stimulus exposure
Treatment groups
Sponsors and collaborators
University of Memphis
Lead sponsor
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Collaborator