Research on speech motor control and its disorders: A review and prospective

RD Kent - Journal of Communication disorders, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper reviews issues in speech motor control and a class of communication disorders
known as motor speech disorders. Speech motor control refers to the systems and strategies …

A review of brain circuitries involved in stuttering

A Craig-McQuaide, H Akram, L Zrinzo… - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Stuttering has been the subject of much research, nevertheless its etiology remains
incompletely understood. This article presents a critical review of the literature on stuttering …

Overreliance on auditory feedback may lead to sound/syllable repetitions: simulations of stuttering and fluency-inducing conditions with a neural model of speech …

O Civier, SM Tasko, FH Guenther - Journal of fluency disorders, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the hypothesis that stuttering may result in part from impaired
readout of feedforward control of speech, which forces persons who stutter (PWS) to …

Increasing phonological complexity reveals heightened instability in inter-articulatory coordination in adults who stutter

A Smith, N Sadagopan, B Walsh… - Journal of fluency disorders, 2010 - Elsevier
The potential role of phonological complexity in destabilizing the speech motor systems of
adults who stutter was explored by assessing the performance of 17 adults who stutter and …

The efficiency of attentional networks in children who stutter

Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether previously reported
questionnaire-based differences in self-regulatory behaviors (Eggers, De Nil, & Van den …

Working memory involvement in stuttering: Exploring the evidence and research implications

A Bajaj - Journal of fluency disorders, 2007 - Elsevier
Several studies of utterance planning and attention processes in stuttering have raised the
prospect of working memory involvement in the disorder. In this paper, potential connections …

Kinematic analyses of speech, orofacial nonspeech, and finger movements in stuttering and nonstuttering adults

L Max, AJ Caruso, VL Gracco - 2003 - ASHA
This work investigated the hypothesis that neuromotor differences between individuals who
stutter and individuals who do not stutter are not limited to the movements involved in …

Speech motor skill and stuttering

AK Namasivayam, P Van Lieshout - Journal of motor behavior, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The authors review converging lines of evidence from behavioral, kinematic, and
neuroimaging data that point to limitations in speech motor skills in people who stutter …

Investigating speech motor practice and learning in people who stutter

AK Namasivayam, P Van Lieshout - Journal of fluency disorders, 2008 - Elsevier
In this exploratory study, we investigated whether or not people who stutter (PWS) show
motor practice and learning changes similar to those of people who do not stutter (PNS). To …

Spontaneous regulation of emotions in preschool children who stutter: Preliminary findings

KN Johnson, TA Walden, EG Conture, J Karrass - 2010 - ASHA
Purpose Emotional regulation of preschool children who stutter (CWS) and children who do
not stutter (CWNS) was assessed through use of a disappointing gift (DG) procedure (PM …