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Summary of https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-adults-stutter-dont-theyre.html, accessed friday 11 februari 2022, 13:35 Study finds that adults who stutter don't stutter when they're alone Study by NYU Steinhardt Professor Eric S. Jackson finds that the perception of being heard makes a big difference in wether a person stutters. Anecdotal reports note this, but it had not been systematically investigated. It is called the talk-alone-effect. The difficulty in investigating this lies in creating conditions in which people believe they are alone. The research involve 24 adults and five different conditions: conversational speech reading aloud private speech believing nobody listens repeating this private speech spontaneous speech They created the private speech condition by giving them a challenging computer programming task, which elicits private speech. They were deceived in thinking they were alone, and moreover told that people who talk out loud to themselves perfo...