People without an inner voice have poorer verbal memory
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The vast majority of people have an ongoing conversation with themselves, an inner voice, that plays an important role in their daily lives. But between 5-10 per cent of the population do not have the same experience of an inner voice, and they find it more difficult to perform certain verbal memory tasks, new research shows.
    • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      6 months ago

      How fo they read silently to themselves? 🤔

      The same way as listening to someone speak. There’s a thread of consciousness that takes in visual data and is translating the written word into a string of syntactical concepts that is then processed analytically.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      I was really surprised when I found out that people imagined voices when reading. Wouldn’t they be sped up voices? People read faster than speech. It’s so confusing…

      • decivexEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        I think the inner monologue is more there to “support” the processing of information rather than being filtered through it entirely.

    • livus@kbin.social
      3·
      6 months ago

      How do you read silently to yourself? Seems like it would be harder and more noisy if you have to hear the whole thing.

        • livus@kbin.social
          3·
          6 months ago

          What I’m getting from this thread is that almost everyone thinks their own cognitive process is easier and less annoying.

          Which makes sense, because thinking is one of those things where people naturally just do it the most efficient way for their own neural structures.