- Inner speech is considered universal and ubiquitous, but its perception varies from person to person.
- Lack of inner speech experience is called anendophasia.
- Individuals with low levels of internal speech perform worse with verbal working memory and image-based rhyming judgments.
- Differences in internal speech do not affect the efficiency of task switching.
- Research on anendophasia adds to the diversity of phenomenal human experience.
Never heard of that before but I usually don’t have a voice inside my head talking to me unless I consciously do it. Usually I use my “internal audio” to play music while I’m doing stuff. Then again, my internal monologue is often external anyways.
Fascinating stuff. I love that we’re learning more about the variations in how we experience thoughts and the world itself.
Have you tried just “playing” music in your head instead? Most of the time, I’m just thinking instrumental music.
Mine either only runs some of the time or it’s all the time and I’m too distracted with more abstract thought to notice. I’m not sure which.
Yeah there are good days where i can give the static something (like an old actors name or sports stat) to chew on but other days im trying to think while ‘national anthem’ by Radiohead is banging around up there