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".)
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".)