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.
  • livus
    4•1 month ago

    @laughterlaughter

    Don’t hear anything like “shit, that’s a lot of money?! Where to start, where to start…”

    No and it’s amazing to me that you’d even be able to think of it in 20 seconds with all that chatter in your brain.

    As I was reading your comment I could sort of hear parts of that, because it’s you “speaking” to me, but as soon as I saw it the $10,000 imediately became a sort of conceptual bundle located in front of me, the 24h was like a moving spatial cycle thing and my brain was plotting possibilities based on how far I would have to travel (the ones falling inside the cycle are the do-able ones) and locating a whole lot of stuff branching out from my computer with short action times.

    Also my brain had immediately reached to the right hand middle distance which is where it “keeps” investment advice. It had a quick dart to the far away centre-left and I had a flash/photorealistic image of home furnishings out there but rejected instantly as the tangled sense of moving parts between me and it meant the process toward them is complex and would take up too much of the 20 second processing time to even see if they would fit in the 24h cycle.

    • livus
      2•1 month ago

      @southsamurai did the above comment make sense?

      It’s hard because we have to translate it to get it across -for me it feels a bit like being asked how do you know where your arms are relative to your body.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 month ago

        about the arms. spacial awareness… and a surprising number of ppl don’t have that

        • livus
          1•1 month ago

          I didn’t express it very well - I meant basic proprioception, which most people have. We need it for things like walking or lifting a cup to our mouths.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 month ago

      Fantastic! Thank you for answering, and I have a similar process going on in my brain as well - but it’s combined with “me talking” as well. For example, if I become aware of that “right hand side” investment section you described, I’d probably say’ “ooh investing, maybe?”

      • livus
        2•1 month ago

        Thanks, that makes sense! But I don’t understand how that could fit in temporally? Like, wouldn’t you have already got halfway through the possible investment overview while you were still talking? Or is it more that you’re doing both at once?

        • @[email protected]English
          2•1 month ago

          Correct, at once. Like a teacher who is writing on something on the whiteboard while speaking.

          Or that scene in Minority Report in which Tom Cruise is going through videos/scenes/etc with his hands while saying things loud to himself.