====== Inner speech ======

>When people reflect upon their own inner experience, they often report that it has a verbal quality (Baars, 2003). Also referred to as //verbal thinking//, //inner speaking, covert self-talk//, //internal monologue//, and //internal dialogue//, inner speech has been proposed to have an important role in the self-regulation of cognition and behavior in both childhood and adulthood, 
>\\ [...]\\ \\ Despite its apparent importance for human cognition, inner speech has received relatively little attention from psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists, partly due to methodological problems involved in its study."\\ \\ Source : [[https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2015-22639-001.html|Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology]] {{:oa_padlock_grn.png?16&nolink|Open Access}}//Psychological Bulletin//, 2015 Volume 141, Issue 5

After more than a century of study, //Inner Speech// remains paradoxical - with little agreement among psychologists as to its exact function, importance, and evolutionary pathways.

The  [[https://lpnc.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/InnerSpeech-2014-2018?lang=en|Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition]], at the University of Grenoble, France, has a research lab dedicated to investigating the phenomenon.

//Note:// Philosophers have also focused on the implications of Inner Speech : See : [[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nous.12385|Why are you talking to yourself? The epistemic role of inner speech in reasoning]] //Noûs, //Early View. June 2021.