Rachel Carlson

Rachel and I are here with Charles Ferniho.

He's a professor of psychology at Durham University and studies inner speech, which is one of many kinds of internal experiences.

Wow.

You're saying basically, like, because we're born into this social world with all these people around, like my niece's little

when she's like talking to herself will eventually become internalized and that is her inner speech.

What kind of scanner, like a CT scanner, an MRI scanner?

Wow.

Wow.

We heard from Russell Hurlburt how there's like limits to surveying.

Like you can't really know what's going on in someone's inner experience fully, nor can they.

How is the addition of scanning deepened our understanding of inner speech or complicated it to the point where maybe there's even more that we don't know?

The beeper, yeah.

Just like chilling in the machine and they just had an errant thought that was inner speech.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that kind of inner speech, like spontaneous inner speech sounds like birding.

You scientists have to patiently wait and see if a bird shows up.

Wow.

So your brain can't tell it's you who's talking.

But if speech is just a tool, do you think that an adult can develop their inner speech?