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.
  • @WraithGearEnglish
    7•4 months ago

    I am not sure about myself. I assume it is English, but now when i think about it my thoughts are much slower, and trip over them selves. It seems odd to consider thought in a means that is contrived for a much less efficient medium. So maybe i don’t think in a language at all and just attribute the meanings after the fact. I can visualize objects in my head though

    • @[email protected]English
      6•4 months ago

      yeh not everyone can visualize in their head. weirdly enough (or maybe not), I can taste in my head. like if you say tomato I can taste it. I should’ve been a chef maybe

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        4•4 months ago

        Taste is an interesting one.

        I can’t say I can truly taste at will but I can remember the experience of tasting something well enough to be able to “visualize” what taste I am craving, sometimes by imagining different tastes one by one until I find the right one. I’m not really tasting them but sort of replaying the experience of tasting them which is enough for me to understand the taste.

        But it’s more like my brain describing it to me than actual taste. It’s weird.

      • livus
        2•4 months ago

        I can taste in my head but there’s a limited range of what I can smell in my head.

        Like, the smell of chocolate or wet dog or chanel no 5, no problem. The smell of my mother’s house or a meadow on a sunny day, very vague and uncertain.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•4 months ago

          yes now that I think of it, smell is def harder. I can only really tell you if something smelled good, like a gf’s sweater (prob pheromones) or bad, because those are easier to forget