Table 1. Summary of published MT values of stuttering adults and control group, for left and right cerebral hemispheres.
Study | Measure | n St | left mean | right mean | left SD | right SD | ||||
St | C | St | C | St | C | St | C | |||
Sommer et al. (2003) [5] | Finger RMT | 16 | 54.5a | 47.3 | 12.1 | 6.5 | ||||
Finger AMT | 16 | 42.2a | 34.6 | 11.2 | 4.7 | |||||
Neef et al. (2011a) [6] | Finger AMT | 14 | 52.1 | 46.6 | 50.9 | 46.8 | 12.3 | 7.8 | 9.7 | 8.15 |
Neef et al. (2011b) [7] | Tongue, exp. 1 | 12 | 48.5 | 46.5 | 44.7 | 49.0 | 9.8 | 7.3 | 8.7 | 8.2 |
Tongue, exp. 2 | 8 | 42.8 | 40.8 | 42.6 | 44.4 | 8.4 | 6.7 | 5.9 | 8.8 |
St = Stuttering; C = control group; RMT = resting motor threshold; AMT active motor threshold; SD = standard deviation.