RE: No internal monologue
February 17, 2020 at 9:49 am
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2020 at 10:27 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
I haven't had time to read the paper yet. And given it's all over the internet there's bound to be exaggerations and misapplications.
On the surface I think most psychologists know people can have thoughts without them being verbal. Children obviously think before they learn to speak, and people who were born deaf never hear an audible language to think with. I think Helen Keller wrote something about what it was like to think for her.
The surprise for me would be if people who already know and use language, aren't incorporating it into their thoughts. I don't believe it, but I look forward to reading the paper and seeing if I'm wrong. I think this is the study:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...1917302379
On the surface I think most psychologists know people can have thoughts without them being verbal. Children obviously think before they learn to speak, and people who were born deaf never hear an audible language to think with. I think Helen Keller wrote something about what it was like to think for her.
The surprise for me would be if people who already know and use language, aren't incorporating it into their thoughts. I don't believe it, but I look forward to reading the paper and seeing if I'm wrong. I think this is the study:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...1917302379
