![]() ![]() The propensity tilts toward voice-hearers. ![]() “This idea of inner speech has not been studied much at all, and our measure provides it in the context of things like visual imagery and orthographic imagery (visualizing text).” How frequently do people report doing these things?” says Hettie Roebuck, a postdoctoral researcher in Lupyan’s lab and coauthor of the Internal Representations Questionnaire, published with its first results this spring in the journal Behavioral Research Methods. Previous questionnaires about inner voices have focused on different questions: say, does an inner voice serve as a method of self-assessment or to provide motivation. “Do I think as patterns? I don’t know what that means … I’m feeling baffled by all of this.” “Sometimes I react to something and say it in my head instead of out loud, but this is not an all-day, everyday occurrence,” wrote one commenter. ![]() When a Reddit user posted a video about the various ways people describe their thoughts, many commenters expressed confusion. Not a specific thing like his father’s face, or a generalized beach scene. Here it is: You can visualize things in your mind.” Software engineer Blake Ross posted to Facebook in 2016 an essay about what he described as “as close to an honest-to-goodness revelation as I will ever live in the flesh. Variations in the way our minds conjure images and spoken words are a recurring topic for posts on Facebook and Reddit. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |