Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia

JSK Nedergaard, G Lupyan - Psychological Science, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
It is commonly assumed that inner speech—the experience of thought as occurring in a
natural language—is a human universal. Recent evidence, however, suggests that the …

[HTML][HTML] Experiential grounding of abstract concepts: Processing of abstract mental state concepts engages brain regions involved in mentalizing, automatic speech …

NM Trumpp, M Ulrich, M Kiefer - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract concepts like mental state concepts lack a physical referent, which can be directly
perceived. Classical theories therefore claim that abstract concepts require amodal …

[HTML][HTML] Reconsidering Luria's speech mediation: Verbalization and haptic picture identification in children with congenital total blindness

A D'Angiulli, D Wymark, S Temi, S Bahrami, A Telfer - Cortex, 2024 - Elsevier
Current accounts of behavioral and neurocognitive correlates of plasticity in blindness are
just beginning to incorporate the role of speech and verbal production. We assessed …

Artificial cognition vs. artificial intelligence for next-generation autonomous robotic agents

G Sandini, A Sciutti, P Morasso - Frontiers in Computational …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The trend in industrial/service robotics is to develop robots that can cooperate with people,
interacting with them in an autonomous, safe and purposive way. These are the fundamental …

IM-RAG: Multi-Round Retrieval-Augmented Generation Through Learning Inner Monologues

D Yang, J Rao, K Chen, X Guo, Y Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Although the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) paradigms can use external
knowledge to enhance and ground the outputs of Large Language Models (LLMs) to …

Relationships between Self-Talk, Inner Speech, Mind Wandering, Mindfulness, Self-Concept Clarity, and Self-Regulation in University Students

F Racy, A Morin - Behavioral Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this study, the researchers explored novel relationships between the self-related
processes of self-talk, inner speech, self-concept clarity, mindfulness, mind wandering, and …

Flexible Goal-directed Cognition and Inner-Speech in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: from clinical data to computational modeling, and backward.

G Granato, R Costanzo, A Borghi, A Mattera… - 2023 - researchsquare.com
Flexible goal-directed human cognition is supported by many forms of self-directed
manipulation of representations. Among them, Inner-Speech (IS; covert self-directed …

Neural dynamics of semantic control underlying generative storytelling

C Rastelli, A Greco, C Finocchiaro, G Penazzi, C Braun… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Storytelling has been pivotal for the transmission of knowledge and cultural norms across
human history. A crucial process underlying the generation of narratives is the exertion of …

Perceived Vocal Congruence Varies Across Gender Identities

C De Livio, C Mazzuca, A Borghi - … of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2024 - escholarship.org
This study investigates vocal congruence across populations with different gender identities.
Forty-four participants completed a self-voice perception task in three conditions (Silent …

[HTML][HTML] Free will implicates inner speech via self-regulation

A Morin - Open Journal of Philosophy, 2024 - scirp.org
Free will typically refers to any form of significant control over one's actions. This definition is
remarkably similar to that of self-regulation—the control of one's behavior, emotions, and …