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.
    • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      6 months ago

      Every time?

      No.

      Easy example; picture an item in your head. Now flip it.

      No language necessary or really even applicable.

      But to learn that some people never have an inner dialogue…? That sounds so weird.

      • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        6 months ago

        Some people can’t picture an item in their head, or can barely do so and wouldn’t be able to flip it.

        • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          6 months ago

          Yeah complete aphantasia is crazy.

          The point is that no-one does that sort of thinking with language, as it’s not really applicable.

          • DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            i can imagine textures and tastes and stuff and geometry relatively complex but when i try to imagine colors all i get is a flat color diagram or an empty room with only one colour

      • Ookami38@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, those things are still almost entirely word-baaed for me. Low level aphantasia, I can’t form a very clear picture in my head, but my inner monologue does a lot of lifting.

    • Today@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      Apparently. I first learned about this last year when a co-worker told me to listen to my inner voice. I said, " oh yeah, like Sybil or Jiminy cricket?" I thought she was kidding. Then I thought she was crazy. Then 2/3 of my office said they hear it too. People who hear don’t believe that other people don’t, and vice versa. People are always trying to trick me into saying I hear something by asking me how I know the sound of my husband’s voice or recognize a song, or get a song stuck in my head. When I have a song stuck in my head it’s just the urge to sing it and there’s no music. I can recognize actors by their voice sometimes, but I cannot do impressions or accents at all!

    • Moghul@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      I can’t look at text without my inner voice reading it to me

      I can come up with answers or solutions to problem without it, but it’s there for a lot of stuff.

    • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Sometimes yes, like right now. I can sense myself saying the words I want to type in my head. Its really like a voice talking to you but I can hear what the sentence will sound like if I read it out loud.