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What is that little voice inside my head? Inner speech phenomenology, its role in cognitive performance, and its relation to self-monitoring

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The little voice inside our head, or inner speech, is a common everyday experience. It plays a central role in human consciousness at the interplay of language and thought. An impressive host of research works has been carried out on inner speech these last fifty years. Here we first describe the phenomenology of inner speech by examining five issues: common behavioural and cerebral correlates with overt speech, different types of inner speech (wilful verbal thought generation and verbal mind wandering), presence of inner speech in reading and in writing, inner signing and voice-hallucinations in deaf people. Secondly, we review the role of inner speech in cognitive performance (i.e., enhancement vs. perturbation). Finally, we consider agency in inner speech and how our inner voice is known to be self-generated and not produced by someone else.
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Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti, L. Rapin, J. P. Lachaux, Monica Baciu, Hélène Loevenbruck. What is that little voice inside my head? Inner speech phenomenology, its role in cognitive performance, and its relation to self-monitoring. Behavioural Brain Research, 2014, 261, pp.220-239. ⟨10.1016/j.bbr.2013.12.034⟩. ⟨hal-00967730⟩
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