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.
  • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    6 months 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·
      6 months 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.

      • DriftinGrifterEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        i can imagine textures and tastes and stuff and geometry relatively complex but when i try to imagine colors all i get is a flat color diagram or an empty room with only one colour

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        6 months 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.