I interviewed Kirsten Carlson, a PA Student at Francis Marion University, who is one of the few people that do not have an internal monologue. She does not h...
Firm yes. Happens to me multiple times a week. Involuntary sound-like thoughts are possible (as are voluntary sound-like thoughts), they just aren't my default mode of thinking.
E.g. I have ABBA's "Does Your Mother Know" stuck in my head right now. I can't 'hear' it in perfect detail because I do not remember it in perfect detail, but it's 60-70% of the way there. (Actually, the more effort I put into analyzing what details I remember and what details I don't, the worse it sounds.) I can skip or repeat sections, translate it into bad Spanish, and, with some effort, transpose it from G to G#. (I guess this is the auditory equivalent of "rotating the cow".)
that would've been a great question for the video. I definitely have a strong internal monologue (sometimes even cumbersome) and I can play back entire songs I've heard in my head at will, with the correct tempo, notes, instrumentation, vocal range, etc. High fidelity. But I don't know if someone without an internal monologue could do this. They probably need to play it back. I think in some ways it might be better to not have one. What you lose out on in imagination you seem to gain in speed. Like the way the woman in the video described her ability to read quickly surprised me, as I've always been a slower reader, and can't read much faster than I can speak, since my internal monologue reads for me.
Say you have a song stuck in your head or can play your favorite song you know real well inside your head.
You can hear it entirely within your own head. I'd say that might be the same exact thing as the way my internal monologue is 'voiced'.
If you say you have no internal monologue, do you know what it means to have a song in your head?
Firm yes. Happens to me multiple times a week. Involuntary sound-like thoughts are possible (as are voluntary sound-like thoughts), they just aren't my default mode of thinking.
E.g. I have ABBA's "Does Your Mother Know" stuck in my head right now. I can't 'hear' it in perfect detail because I do not remember it in perfect detail, but it's 60-70% of the way there. (Actually, the more effort I put into analyzing what details I remember and what details I don't, the worse it sounds.) I can skip or repeat sections, translate it into bad Spanish, and, with some effort, transpose it from G to G#. (I guess this is the auditory equivalent of "rotating the cow".)
that would've been a great question for the video. I definitely have a strong internal monologue (sometimes even cumbersome) and I can play back entire songs I've heard in my head at will, with the correct tempo, notes, instrumentation, vocal range, etc. High fidelity. But I don't know if someone without an internal monologue could do this. They probably need to play it back. I think in some ways it might be better to not have one. What you lose out on in imagination you seem to gain in speed. Like the way the woman in the video described her ability to read quickly surprised me, as I've always been a slower reader, and can't read much faster than I can speak, since my internal monologue reads for me.