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Introduction: Although impaired word finding—anomia—is typically observed in people with aphasia, they often report being able to internally retrieve certain words correctly, saying that “it sounds right in my head”(Marshall & Tompkins, 1982). This sense of successful Inner Speech (IS) is difficult to verify, leaving clinicians and scientists uncertain of its meaning. Previous work has shown differences in how often people report having “the idea of a word” depending on the diagnosis, and this is reflected in performance on phonological tasks (Goodglass, Kaplan, Weintraub, & Ackerman, 1976). However, this prior study did not test items on a word-by-word basis. Also, while covert (internal) naming tasks are often used in aphasia research, especially neuroimaging, no study to date has tested whether insight into IS predicts the brain networks recruited during word retrieval. Hypothesis: The self-report of subjectively …