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 …

Inner speech—also known as covert speech or verbal thinking—has been implicated in
theories of cognitive development, speech monitoring, executive function, and …

The discriminative lexicon is introduced as a mathematical and computational model of the
mental lexicon. This novel theory is inspired by word and paradigm morphology but …

How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds?
In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in …

Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers
use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to …

Current research on identification with narrative characters poses two problems. First,
although identification is seen as a dynamic process of which the intensity varies during …

A brain–computer interface (BCI) is a technology that uses neural features to restore or
augment the capabilities of its user. A BCI for speech would enable communication in real …

This is a book about the human propensity to think about and experience the world through
stories.'Why do we have stories?','How do stories create meaning for us?', and 'How is …

The objective of this article is twofold. In the first part, I discuss two issues central to any
theoretical inquiry into mental imagery: embodiment and consciousness. I do so against the …

Inner speech has been implicated in important aspects of normal and atypical cognition,
including the development of auditory hallucinations. Studies to date have focused on covert …