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From: Maggie Mitchell, Minnesota State University Mankato, first year
graduate student
Date: 10/6/02
Time: 1:22:06 PM
Remote Name: 24.197.195.188
I am very interested in how the brain works, especially when dealing with language, so your article was a very exciting read for me. Have you thought of comparing the brains of stutterers with those adults affected by apraxia of speech? To me they have always seemed to be very similar in some respects and I think it would be interesting to see how the brains compare and what affected areas are similar. During the "reading aloud" that the stutterers did, were these single words, two word phrases or connected speech? I am assuming that it would be multi-word utterances, but the article didn't state specifically. Another question I have deals with the auditory areas. I thought that the majority of stutters were aware of their stuttering (with clutter-stutters not being aware) so why would their auditory areas be associated with deactivation? To me, it seems that they would be activated just as much as those who didn't stutter. Your article was very exciting to read. It is nice to finally know that the brains of stutterers and those of nonstutterers clearly have some differences during speech activation.