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Why Speech Motor Blocks Emerge in a Communicative Context: An Active Inference Model of Stuttering

2026-08-21

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Adults who stutter can speak fluently when speech is not addressed to another person, but stuttering emerges when they aim to convey information to a listener. The value of the information being conveyed to the listener also affects the likelihood of stuttering. Why should the mere absence of a listener neutralise a profound motor deficit, and why does a word's predictability affect whether it is spoken fluently?...

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Literature Corpus work: e4ab67b4-c353-57cd-a0cb-916fe901b4a6
DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.17.745328

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