gclef on Nostr: Most of us have an “inner voice,” and we tend to assume everybody does, but ...

Most of us have an “inner voice,” and we tend to assume everybody does, but recent evidence suggests that people vary widely in the extent to which they experience inner speech, from an almost constant patter to a virtual absence of self-talk.

“Until you start asking the right questions you don’t know there’s even variation,” says Gary Lupyan, a cognitive scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “People are really surprised because they’d assumed everyone is like them.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/not-everyone-has-an-inner-voice-streaming-through-their-head/

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