Scientists Aren't Sure How the Inner Voice Works

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Most people experience conversations and see images in their minds, though the mechanics have proven difficult to nail down. What does your inner voice say? Read more below.

used fMRI to probe what was going on in the brain when people experienced inner speech. In alignment with other similar research, the team found that while some inner speech involves complete sentences and even whole paragraphs , some of it is more fragmentary — just a scrap of a thought here or a word there.

And as Hurlburt has discovered after decades of helping people peer into their own minds, there is a huge amount of variation from person to person. Some people hear inner voices that may sound like recordings while others describe it as much more vague and fuzzy. Research from Hurlburt and other scientists — along with plenty of anecdotal evidence — has indicated that some people don’t hear inner speech at all, or at least not according to their definition of it. In a 2010That doesn’t necessarily mean those people don’t have one, though. It depends on how you characterize the inner voice, says Ethan Kross, a psychologist at the University of Michigan and author of.

However, Kross adds, “As you move up the ladder of complexity in terms of the functions an inner voice serves, I think you see more variability in the degree with which people engage in [inner speech].”Our minds not only have soundtracks, but they also offer video entertainment by way of mental images. Most people can conjure at least a fuzzy image of, say, their bedroom. Still, it isn’t universal.

There may be a strong link between aphantasia and the lack of an inner voice, also known as anauralia, according to a

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