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
    11•6 months ago

    Me too. People like you are fascinating to me. When I first found out that everyone thinks differently I went around interrogating everyone I knew about how they think.

    I don’t have an interior monologue unless Im typing, but I sometimes use my internal “sound system” to play music.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•6 months ago

      Me too!! I had my nephew and his wife arguing at dinner about whether the inner voice was real or god. 🤣

      • livus
        3•6 months ago

        I can see that could have that effect! I pretty much need it for typing, it’s like an act of translation. I have to write a lot for work or I probably wouldn’t have started doing it that way.

        If someone is talking or the radio is on when I type I will accidentally include some of the words from those sources.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)English
      1•6 months ago

      That’s really fascinating and similar to how I think, I think. Like, typing, reading, or thinking about things that are by nature verbal get internally verbalized but in an atonal “narrator voice”, though it’s still not “quiet” otherwise. I also have what I call my “internal walkman” for playing music in a recording/playback manner (sometimes with some “skips”), rather than any voice of my own.