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Not Everyone Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia (escholarship.org)
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  • Inner speech is considered universal and ubiquitous, but its perception varies from person to person.
  • Lack of inner speech experience is called anendophasia.
  • Individuals with low levels of internal speech perform worse with verbal working memory and image-based rhyming judgments.
  • Differences in internal speech do not affect the efficiency of task switching.
  • Research on anendophasia adds to the diversity of phenomenal human experience.
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[–] can 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fascinating stuff. I love that we're learning more about the variations in how we experience thoughts and the world itself.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Never heard of that before but I usually don't have a voice inside my head talking to me unless I consciously do it. Usually I use my "internal audio" to play music while I'm doing stuff. Then again, my internal monologue is often external anyways.