Brain activity during the preparation and production of spontaneous speech in children with persistent stuttering.

ABSTRACT: Speech production forms the basis for human verbal communication. Though fluent speech production is effortless and automatic for most people, it is disrupted in speakers who stutter, who experience difficulties especially during spontaneous speech and at utterance onsets. Brain areas comprising the basal ganglia thalamocortical (BGTC) motor loop have been a focus of interest in the context of stuttering, given this circuit's critical role in initiating and sequencing connected speech. Despite the importance of better understanding the role of the BGTC motor loop in supporting overt, spontaneous speech production, capturing brain activity during speech has been challenging to date, due to fMRI artifacts associated with severe head motions during speech production. Here, using an advanced t

SUBMITTER: Chow HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10149502 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature