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.
  • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I don’t think it’s limited like that. While I usually think in sentences, it also happens that I get ideas that I either can’t express in words or it happens so fast that I don’t bother trying to think it through in sentences.

    Try to think of a house and notice how you don’t need to describe it in any detail to instantly visualise how you think a house looks.

    It’ll be interesting to hear what they find in the ongoing research, but it’s already clear that the brain is not just a large language model.