People without an inner voice have poorer verbal memory
humanities.ku.dk
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.
  • @redcalciumEnglish
    9•5 months ago

    Those are probably the quick-thinker types. I wonder if people with inner voices take longer when making decision because they have to “listen” to the their inner voices.

    • KnitwearEnglish
      13•5 months ago

      A friend asked me the same thing, they have a back and forth of voices, at significant speed, and then they reach a decision. Whereas I just “know” all the pros and cons (to the best of my ability) all at once if that makes sense?

      • @grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        I don’t know what it is I know, except that if I start flapping my gums the ol’ blackbox will fill in the details. I kind of realise it as I’m saying it lol

    • @cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11•5 months ago

      I’ve got both pathways in my brain. Thinking without words is definitely faster. Verbal thought is better for communication and crystallisation of ideas. I.e. I think about something non-verbally, then internally verbalise the conclusions to help fix it in my memory and communicate it.

    • BruceTwarzen
      4•5 months ago

      I don’t think i’m a quick thinker guy, but my reflexes are shockingly good. Like i i sometimes knock something over while cooking and i just see it in the corner of my eyes and somehow catch it midair. But in this fraction of a second my inner monologue still goes: i just knocked something over, but what, oh right, i put the soda stream bottle on the counter because i just emptied the dishwasher. Oh no it’s also probably the glass one, because i have three glass bottles and only one that is plastic, so this could bet really messy when it breaks, they are also kinda expensive.
      And then i somehow hold it in my hand before i fully caught up. Kinda like when you snooze for 10 minutes but have like 2 hours worth of dreams.

    • livus
      2•5 months ago

      Have to admit the number of people in here with full internal voices has made me realize why podcasts and long videos of youtubers talking are so popular.

      I hate them because it’s like spending 10 minutes to be drip fed 1 minute’s worth of information.

      • @Today@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        I hate videos of talking and i don’t understand why tiktok is popular. I can skim an article without watching 10 minutes of crap.

        • livus
          1•5 months ago

          Exactly, it’s like not being able to fast travel in a game.

          I like tiktok for non talky stuff like those 10 second videos of a fox walking along or something.

    • Sabata11792
      1•5 months ago

      I noticed I use words for accuracy, some wordless mush between the two for speed, and images with less wordy thought for details.

      Words and inner voice is the default, imagery gets used when needed, and wordless mush takes active effort to suppress the words and images.