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Why Stuttering Occurs: The Role of Cognitive Conflict and Control.
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- A Meta-Analytical Review of Executive Function Skills in Adults Who Stutter.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026Pooled it
- Unraveling the mystery of stuttering: clinical and physiological insights into its manifestation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Improving Stuttering Through Augmented Multisensory Feedback Stimulation.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- An active inference account of stuttering behavior.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
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The purpose of this article is to provide a theoretical account of the experience of stuttering that incorporates previous explanations and recent experimental findings. According to this account, stuttering-like disfluencies emerge during early childhood from excessive detection of cognitive conflict due to subtle limitations in speech and language processes. For a subset of children who begin to stutter, the development of approach-avoidance motivational conflict likely contributes to a chronic reliance on cognitive control processes during speech. Consequently, maladaptive activation of right hemisphere inhibitory cortices to the basal ganglia via a hyperdirect pathway results in involuntary, episodic, and transient freezing of the motor system during speech initiation. This freeze response, consistent with defensive behavior in threatening situations, may lead to stuttering persistence, tension and struggle, maladaptive speech physiology, and feelings of anxiety and loss of control.
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