ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2007, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (2): 326-332.

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Brain Mechanism of Developmental Stuttering

Xu Xingyuan;Cai Houde   

  1. Department of Reformation, Central Institute For Correctional Police, Baoding 071000, China)
    (2Lab of Brain and Behavior, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097,China
  • Received:2006-03-29 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2007-03-15 Published:2007-03-15
  • Contact: Cai Houde

Abstract: Developmental stuttering is a popular speech disorder, about which there has been a hypothesis that laterality of brain speech function could be abnormal in stutterers. Recently, the evidences from neuroimaging studies of developmental stuttering support this classical hypothesis as well, and indicate that the temporal system responsible for speech monitoring, and the frontal system as well as subcortical structures related with speech motor control are dysfunctional, which impair precise timing for speech production. According to these, researchers argue the brain mechanism of stuttering with the neural networks, and suggest that “two-loop” networks including multiple brain regions involved in speech production could be disrupted

Key words: developmental stuttering, laterality, speech monitoring, speech motor control, two-loop networks

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