Any mods or others who stutter - want to join me in researching about stutter conditioning? (Novel stimulus > unconditioned stimulus > CS > CR)
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Any mods or others who stutter - want to join me in researching about stutter conditioning? (Novel stimulus > unconditioned stimulus > CS > CR) Nobody speaks all of the time, including non-stutterers and PWS. Sometimes we remain silent despite having planned words or phrases that we could potentially have said. So there must be a mechanism inside our brains that regulates when we speak and when we remain silent. For example anticipating stuttering or negative judgements can lead to poorly fine-tuning this release threshold. I hope we agree at least this far. This mechanism is often referred to as the “Release Threshold Mechanism” or the “Execution Threshold Mechanism” because it uses a threshold mechanism to regulate when and where we release planned speech for motor execution. Problem: Current research offers little insight into research studies on **conditioning** the release threshold mechanism. It’s possible that more research will emerge in 30 or even 80 years—but by then, it may be too late for many of us to benefit. Instead of waiting passively for that distant future, why not take action now? Let’s collaborate and explore this **conditioning** process together. Whether through operant or classical conditioning, or even modern approaches like incentive-based learning theory, we have the tools to make progress. All this information is readily freely available on internet. So, why wait? Join me in tackling this challenge head-on. Who’s with me? My suggestion is, each of us browse the internet, and post any insightful information here in his 'overcome\_stuttering' subreddit. This way we can build upon this newly-found info and learn from one another.