Inner Speech and Thought

Sokolov, Alexander N.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-1914-6

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“…Likewise, the phrases that carry the meanings we reason about get produced in the unspoken equivalent of tones of voice that are emphatic, querulous, excited, despondent, impatient, measured, despairing, confident, bored, hopeful and so on. Inner speech is always subject to spontaneous excitation and felt provocation, and is both embodied and felt: its process is accompanied by motor activation of the musculature that produces ordinary speech (Locke & Fehr, 1970), and inhibiting this (by requiring people to clamp their mouths shut) can inhibit reasoning (Sokolov, 1975). Simultaneously, frequently used words and phrases may have been intertwined with so many different feelings that they now seem largely devoid of felt significance: their mobilisation simply feels smooth, effortless and automatic.…”

Section: Language and Feelingmentioning

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Feeling Bodies: Embodying Psychology

Cromby

2015

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Section: Language and Feelingmentioning

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Feeling Bodies: Embodying Psychology

Cromby

2015

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“…This theory was short lived since maneuvers blocking SVS did not alleviate AVH (Stephane et al, 2001a). Given that both inner speech and AVH are associated with both motor and perceptual components (Sokolov, 1972; MacKay, 1992), We suggested, instead, that a disorder of generation of inner speech would result in a perceptual component (AVH) and a motor component (SVS) as an un-bothersome byproduct (Stephane et al, 2001a). …”

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Auditory verbal hallucinations result from combinatoric associations of multiple neural events

Stephane¹

2013

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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While Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVH) refer to specific experiences shared by all subjects who have AVH—the perception of auditory speech without corresponding external stimuli, the characteristics of these experiences differ from one subject to another. These characteristics include aspects such as the location of AVH (inside or outside the head), the linguistic complexity of AVH (hearing words, sentences, or conversations), the range of content of AVH (repetitive or systematized content), and many other variables. In another word, AVH are phenomenologically heterogeneous experiences. After decades of research focused on a few explanatory mechanisms for AVH, it is apparent that none of these mechanisms alone explains the wide phenomenological range of AVH experiences. To date, our phenomenological understanding of AVH remains largely disjointed from our understanding of the mechanisms of AVH. For a cohesive understanding of AVH, I review the phenomenology and the cognitive and neural basis of AVH. This review indicates that the phenomenology of AVH is not a pointless curiosity. How a subject describes his AVH experiences could inform about the neural events that resulted in AVH. I suggest that a subject-specific combinatoric associations of different neural events result in AVH experiences phenomenologically diverse across subjects.

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“…Although, we know that inner speech is not the basis of thought, it does accompany and clearly supports many cognitive activities, such as planning, reading, and memorization ( e.g. Sokolov, 1972; Vygotski, 1965; see, e.g. Smith, Reisberg, & Wilson, 1992, for how auditory verbal imagery contrasts with inner speech).…”

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Motor movement matters: The flexible abstractness of inner speech

2010

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Inner speech is typically characterized as either the activation of abstract linguistic representations or a detailed articulatory simulation that lacks only the production of sound. We present a study of the speech errors that occur during the inner recitation of tongue-twister-like phrases. Two forms of inner speech were tested: inner speech without articulatory movements and articulated (mouthed) inner speech. Although mouthing one's inner speech could reasonably be assumed to require more articulatory planning, prominent theories assume that such planning should not affect the experience of inner speech and, consequently, the errors that are "heard" during its production. The errors occurring in articulated inner speech exhibited the phonemic similarity effect and the lexical bias effect-two speech-error phenomena that, in overt speech, have been localized to an articulatoryfeature-processing level and a lexical-phonological level, respectively. In contrast, errors in unarticulated inner speech did not exhibit the phonemic similarity effect-just the lexical bias effect. The results are interpreted as support for a flexible abstraction account of inner speech. This conclusion has ramifications for the embodiment of language and speech and for the theories of speech production.

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Inner Speech and Thought

Cited by 253 publications

References 28 publications

Feeling Bodies: Embodying Psychology

Feeling Bodies: Embodying Psychology

Auditory verbal hallucinations result from combinatoric associations of multiple neural events

Motor movement matters: The flexible abstractness of inner speech

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