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.
  • @Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12•1 year ago

    Every time?

    No.

    Easy example; picture an item in your head. Now flip it.

    No language necessary or really even applicable.

    But to learn that some people never have an inner dialogue…? That sounds so weird.

    • @CoggyMcFee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15•1 year ago

      Some people can’t picture an item in their head, or can barely do so and wouldn’t be able to flip it.

      • @Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        Yeah complete aphantasia is crazy.

        The point is that no-one does that sort of thinking with language, as it’s not really applicable.

        • @Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5•1 year ago

          I was really confused when you said picture an object then flip it. When people say picture something I always assumed that was a way to say think about the thing. I guess because I can think about things, obviously, but I can’t picture them. Their wouldn’t be a thing for me to flip if someone asked me to picture an object which left me wondering, wtf do you mean flip it.

            • @Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2•1 year ago

              I guess my point is that I can’t picture something in that way. Picturing a green apple vs a red apple. I don’t actually visualize anything. I can think ok it’s a sour apple or sweet apple but I don’t have a visual to modify. The teapot I would just be thinking ok the teapot is upside down, theirs nothing I can visualize that would change. I have tried really hard, especially when I miss loved ones, I wish I could bring about images of them in my mind really badly.

              • @mrcleanup@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1•1 year ago

                Faces are hard for me too, but not impossible. It’s like AI. It’s easy to get a “teapot” but it takes more work and focus to get a specific individual.

        • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          it’s wack, shits even weirder when you dream.

          My dreams often get retconned into the real world, unless my brain immediately determines them to be bullshit. Which is uh, unsettling.

    • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      oh my friend, you have made the most relevant mistake in the book, may i introduce you to aphantasics? People who are incapable of visualizing something in their mind.

    • @Ookami38@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Yeah, those things are still almost entirely word-baaed for me. Low level aphantasia, I can’t form a very clear picture in my head, but my inner monologue does a lot of lifting.