TallyMan wrote:
While reading the words in this post do you hear the words in your mind? If so in who's voice?
I assumed everyone heard the words in their mind when reading, but apparently not according to this thread:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt216217.htmlIf I'm reading text written by someone famous I usually hear their voice speaking the words I'm reading. Similarly, some members here with avatars of famous people - I hear their posts spoken by the person in their avatar.
What proportion of people do and don't hear the words being spoken in their mind?
Tally what you want to look for if you are interested in this is a population break down of thinking styles. I have read about this a long time ago but I can't remember the source now. I'm 90% confident that the population breakdown was approx.
80% audio and audio and visual
15% audio only
5% visual only
If you think about it the numbers makes sense considering part of our brains are uniquely built to process language. Cultures everywhere on earth have developed language. It's a universal human skill and one of the most critical factors of our success as a species. It makes sense that internal dialogue is present in the majority of people.
I always have an audio component to reading together with visual. The voice is any voice that I want. I know this is going to sound stupid but lately it's been Morgan Freeman's voice. Guess I've been watching too many documentaries
This may be diverting slightly off topic but one thing that has seemed odd to me is that it feels completely unnatural for me to talk through math problems and it's is a struggle for me to translate what is going on in my head into words. This seems odd to me because my reading style is audio/visual, so it would make sense that working through math problems would involve an audio component also. To be clear I read the a math question like I would anything else but I lose the audio component when coming up with the solution. Do you guys "talk through" math problems in your head similar to reading or is it visual only?