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.
  • ElextraEnglish
    90·
    5 months ago

    TIL. I’m one of the 5-10% as well!! I have not noticed a deficit in verbal memory… I’m more interested reading the comments and learning today that people have inner voices?!?

    • lagomorphlectureEnglish
      30·
      5 months ago

      Yes! You’ve seen TV shows where people are thinking words in their heads or whatever…based on reality!

      • TodayEnglish
        30·
        5 months ago

        I think of cartoons - some people have word bubbles for ideas - some of us just have a lightbulb.

    • afraid_of_zombiesEnglish
      20·
      5 months ago

      Basically if I know you well I hear your voice in my head argue for a pov I know you hold. If you are say a safety-first kinda guy I will hear you lecture me when I am not being safe. I got a committee arguing all the time and I admit it sometimes becomes hard to remember if I mentioned X to my mental version of someone or the real someone.

      Yes I am aware that the voices I hear are not real. It is just the way my brain is presenting information to itself. Like writing down notes in different colored inks. It is all the same letters and words but with an added change.