{"id":70848,"date":"2022-04-19T13:26:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T17:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?p=70848"},"modified":"2022-04-19T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T18:25:20","slug":"science-finally-has-a-good-idea-about-why-we-stutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/science-finally-has-a-good-idea-about-why-we-stutter\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Scientific American<\/em> Podcast with Frank Guenther: Why We Stutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(04\/13\/2022, <em>Scientific American<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/2xupdatedforweb_11-3701-GUENTHER-042-636x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-52846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/2xupdatedforweb_11-3701-GUENTHER-042-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/2xupdatedforweb_11-3701-GUENTHER-042-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/2xupdatedforweb_11-3701-GUENTHER-042-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/2xupdatedforweb_11-3701-GUENTHER-042-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/2xupdatedforweb_11-3701-GUENTHER-042-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/2xupdatedforweb_11-3701-GUENTHER-042-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2013\/05\/2xupdatedforweb_11-3701-GUENTHER-042.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><em><strong>Expert quote:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span>\u2026stuttering is a problem with the on\/off switch. The motors and gears work fine. But the switch doesn\u2019t always turn on when it should. Or it doesn\u2019t stay on as long as it should. This results in delays in initiating a word. Or repetitions of the first part of the word.<\/span><span>&#8221; &#8211; Professor Frank Guenther<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/science-finally-has-a-good-idea-about-why-we-stutter\/\">Listen to the podcast\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(04\/13\/2022, Scientific American) Expert quote: &#8220;\u2026stuttering is a problem with the on\/off switch. The motors and gears work fine. But the switch doesn\u2019t always turn on when it should. Or it doesn\u2019t stay on as long as it should. This results in delays in initiating a word. Or repetitions of the first part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19722,"featured_media":59254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5144,5145],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70848"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70855,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70848\/revisions\/70855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}