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.