While many of us are reading or thinking our own voice we hear it in our heads. As someone who has experienced an inner monologue, it can be difficult to imagine a way of thinking where the inner voice is not active, but this mechanism really doesn’t work for some people.

Well, it’s like a voice rises from our brains Have you ever thought about how and why we can hear our inner voice that makes us feel like we hear it?

The phenomenon of the inner voice has interested psychologists and linguists for many years.

in linguistics to behaviorism Contributing psychologist Lev Vygotsky suggested that our ability to use inner speech develops as “private speech” during childhood, and that young children can only think aloud.

In the 19th century, the French neurosurgeon Paul Broca developed by the physical mechanism He was interested in studying patients with aphasia and determined that an area in the left anterior hemisphere (now Broca’s area) was vital for language and speech production.

Neighboring brain regions contribute to language processing.

German neurologist Carl Wernicke an area in the back of the brain discovered that language (now known as the Wernicke area) plays an important role in language understanding.

Since then, several neighboring areas have as well contributes to the processing and production of language and it was discovered that there is an extensive network of connections between these regions and the areas responsible for hearing.

When we speak internally, our muscles activate when we speak out loud!

The pathways we call dorsal and ventral streams are language pathways in the brain. They are also involved in auditory and visual processing. in childhood; dorsal flow is slower than ventral flow develops. The emergence of inner speech is influenced by the development of the dorsal stream.

Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners in these regions. your crazy business they saw it happen. While speaking internally, this process also activated our speech-related muscles so that we could hear our inner voice.

If you can’t hear your inner voice, you can have a visual monologue.

Research also shows that when you imagine images with your eyes closed, your brain departments responsible for visual perception He found himself taking action.

So if you don’t “hear” your inner voice, it doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t have an inner monologue, because some people are more likely to have an auditory voice. to visual monologue has. For example, they can “make” to-do lists in their head, but cannot hear their own thoughts.

Deaf people can experience their inner monologue through gestures or images. To both an inner voice and inner thoughts You may also have and experience them intermittently.

Why we have such a faculty remains a mystery.

Researchers still don’t fully understand why some people don’t have an inner voice. Now, with maturation of the dorsal stream They think it’s related.

In addition; While the reason why this ability evolves is still not fully resolved, complex compounds. It is clear that it plays an important role in imagining and predicting our future actions.