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Eric was interviewd by John Gartner and Harry Segal for the Shrinking Trump podcast episode, "It's his stutter, NOT cognitive decline." Eric makes the argument that much of what is being perceived as "cognitive decline" is actually Biden compensating for stuttering.  

Eric was interviewed by John Hendrickson from the Atlantic for a piece about Biden's stuttering titled, "What Biden's Stuttering Doesn't Explain."

Could psychedelics help people who stutter? Our most recent paper, published in the Journal of Fluency Disorders, includes a qualitative analysis of the impact of classic psychedelics (psilocybin, LSD) on stuttering. We analyzed 114 Reddit posts of self-identified...

The lab recently attended the 2024 World Congress on Stuttering and Cluttering in Austin, TX. Doc students Haley Warner and Courtney Margulis presented posters titled, "The impact of information load on stuttering variability" and "How adults who stutter perceive...

Savvy lab doc student Haley Warner is this year's recipient of the NSA Graduate Student Research Award. Her project extends our previous work on private speech in adults by examining the phenomenon in preschoolers. This work will provide critical insights into the...

Haley and Courtney (savvy lab doc students) presented pilot data for a project about using speaking and listening tasks to screen potential functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) participants. fNIRS is the tool we use to estimate brain activation. Some...

This is our latest discovery re: the neural processes that precede stuttered speech. This study identified an inhibitory control- or "freezing-like" response that likely emanates from the right presupplementary motor area, an area in the brain well known for exactly...

Doc student Courtney Margulis' poster was awarded the special designation of Changemaker Session at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Annual Conference. This is very cool work that seeks to understand how stutterers perceive their social...