Inner speech : : new voices / / Peter Langland-Hassan, Agustin Vicente.

• TeilnehmendeR: Langland-Hassan, Peter,; Vicente, Agustín, 1970-
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Notes: This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

'Inner Speech' focuses on a familiar and yet mysterious element of our daily lives. In light of renewed interest in the general connections between thought, language, and consciousness, this anthology develops a number of important new theories about internal voices and raises questions about their nature and cognitive functions.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Inner Speech: New Voices -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- I.1 What Are the Proper Parts of Inner Speech, and How Do They Relate? -- I.1.1 What is the relation of inner speech's components to each other? -- I.2 Is Inner Speech the Expression of Thought, or Thought Itself? -- I.3 In What Ways Does Inner Speech Facilitate Self-Knowledge ? -- I.4 What Role Can Inner Speech Play in Explanations of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations and "Inserted Thoughts"? -- I.5 Vygotsky's Complicated Legacy -- I.5.1 Inner speech for self-regulation -- I.5.2 Inner speech as internalization of conversations -- I.5.3 Inner speech as condensed and idiosyncratic -- I.6 Conclusion -- References -- Part I: The Nature of Inner Speech -- 1: The Causes and Contents of Inner Speech -- 1.1 Causes -- 1.1.1 Auditory imagination -- 1.1.2 Mental rehearsal -- 1.1.3 Inner speech selection -- 1.2 Contents -- 1.2.1 Outer speech -- 1.2.2 Inner speech: comprehension -- 1.2.3 Inner speech: content -- 1.2.4 Why so reliable? -- 1.2.5 Why no uncertainty? -- 1.3 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2: Inner Speech as the Internalization of Outer Speech -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Inner speech versus auditory imagery -- 2.2.1 The misleading identification -- 2.2.2 Does the analogy hold? -- 2.2.3 Auditory imagery as the perception of inner speech -- 2.2.4 Auditory imagery that represents inner speech versus auditory imagery that does not -- 2.2.5 Consciousness via the auditory imagery of inner speech -- 2.2.6 Some alternative accounts of the relation -- 2.3 Inner Speech as Internalized Conversation -- 2.3.1 Some unpersuasive arguments -- 2.3.2 The problem with Mentalese -- 2.3.3 Simple conversation -- 2.3.4 Conversation internalized -- 2.3.5 The nonlinguistic cognitive foundation -- Acknowledgments.

References -- 3: From Introspection to Essence: The Auditory Nature of Inner Speech -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Why Inner Speech Must Have an Auditory-Phonological Component -- 3.2.1 From phenomenology to essence -- 3.3 Some Objections Considered -- 3.3.1 Objection: I usually speak English -- that's why my inner speech always seems to be in English -- 3.3.2 Objection: My intentions reveal to me the language to which my inner speech is keyed -- 3.3.3 Objection: Inner speech could have a phonological component without being auditory -- 3.3.4 Objection: Motor imagery allows us to judge the language to which our inner speech is keyed -- 3.4 Inserted Thoughts, and the Language in Which They Occur -- 3.4.1 AVHs, inserted thoughts, and patient reports -- 3.4.2 Sensorimotor accounts of agency -- 3.4.3 A proposal for new diagnostic questions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4: Inner Speech and Mental Imagery: A Neuroscientific Perspective -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A Brief History of Neuroscientific Investigation of Inner Speech -- 4.3 Imaging Studies of Inner Speech -- 4.4 Studies of Inner Speech in Aphasia -- 4.5 The Neuroscience of Mental Imagery -- 4.6 Visual Imagery -- 4.7 Motor Imagery -- 4.8 Principles of Imagery -- Bibliography -- 5: A Cognitive Neuroscience View of Inner Language: To Predict and to Hear, See, Feel -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Abstract-Concrete Dimension of Inner Language -- 5.2.1 Arguments for the abstractness and amodality of inner language -- 5.2.2 Arguments for the concreteness and multimodality of inner language -- 5.2.2.1 PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES -- 5.2.2.2 CEREBRAL CORRELATES -- 5.2.2.3 ARTICULATORY SPECIFICATION -- 5.2.2.4 GESTURAL REPRESENTATION IN COVERT SIGN LANGUAGE -- 5.2.3 Coexistence of abstract-amodal and concrete-multimodal forms -- 5.3 The Sensory-Motor Dimension of Inner Language.

5.3.1 Arguments for a motor or enactive nature -- 5.3.2 Arguments for a sensory nature -- 5.4 Integrating the Sensory-Motor Nature of Inner Language into the "Predictive Control" Account -- 5.5 A Cerebral Landscape -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6: Inner Speaking as Pristine Inner Experience -- 6.1 Characteristics of an Adequate Method -- 6.2 Descriptive Experience Sampling -- 6.3 Reflections on the Current Science of Inner Speech -- 6.3.1 The appeal to Vygotsky -- 6.3.2 Discriminations of phenomena -- 6.3.3 Introspection -- 6.3.4 Bracketing presuppositions -- 6.3.5 Indirect methods of investigating inner speech -- 6.3.6 Questionnaires and non-DES experience sampling -- 6.4 Apprehending in High Fidelity: A Case Study -- 6.5 Discussion -- References -- PART II: Inner Speech, Self-Reflection, and Self-Knowledge -- 7: Inner Speech, Determinacy, and Thinking Consciously about Thoughts -- 7.1 Intentional Ascent and Semantic Ascent -- 7.2 Indeterminacy and Ambiguity in Inner Speech -- 7.3 The Structure of Inner Speech Episodes -- 7.4 Thinking Consciously vs. Being Conscious of a Thought -- References -- 8: Inner Speech and Outer Thought -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Inner Speech as Format -- 8.3 Inner Speech as Activity -- 8.4 Thinking as Self-Communication? -- 8.5 Thinking as Dual -- 8.6 Type 2 Thinking as Activity -- 8.7 Speaking as Thinking -- 8.8 Speaking as Judging and Deciding -- 8.9 Conclusion -- References -- 9: When Inner Speech Misleads -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Content without Commitment: Inner Speech as Imagination -- 9.3 Inner Speech as Speech -- 9.3.1 Inner speech as productive rather than re-creative -- 9.3.2 Inner speech acts as the main form of inner speech -- 9.4 The Experiential Content of Speech Experience -- 9.5 The Experiential Content of Inner Speech -- 9.6 The Ways in Which Inner Speech Can (and Can't) Mislead.

9.7 Conclusion -- References -- 10: Know Thyself: Beliefs vs. Desires in Inner Speech -- 10.1 Inner Speech and Communication -- 10.2 The Expression of Beliefs vs. Desires by Assertions -- 10.3 Inner Speech and Self-Knowledge -- 10.3.1 Argument -- 10.3.2 Objections -- 10.4 Beliefs and Desires -- 10.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 11: The Self-Reflective Functions of Inner Speech: Thirteen Years Later -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Overview -- 11.2.1 Self-reflection -- 11.2.2 Inner speech -- 11.3 Inner Speech Involvement in Self-Reflection -- 11.4 Empirical Evidence -- 11.4.1 Questionnaires -- 11.4.2 Self-reflection deficits following inner speech loss -- 11.4.3 LIFG/inner speech involvement in self-referential tasks -- 11.4.4 Self-reported inner speech about the self -- 11.4.5 Inner speech and awareness of mind-wandering -- 11.4.6 The self as narrative -- 11.5 Theoretical Considerations -- 11.5.1 Inner speech can reproduce social mechanisms leading to self-reflection -- 11.5.2 Self-reflection as a problem-solving process -- 11.5.3 Self-distancing/decoupling -- 11.5.4 Verbal labelling -- 11.6 Conclusion -- References -- 12: Activity, Agency, and Inner Speech Pathology -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Classic Motor Control and Comparator Accounts of Inner Speech Pathology -- 12.2.1 Classic motor control -- 12.2.2 The standard comparator account of inner speech pathology -- 12.2.3 The alternative to the standard comparator account -- 12.2.4 Support for the standard and alternative comparator accounts of inner speech pathology -- 12.2.5 Summary of standard and alternative comparator accounts -- 12.3 Predictive Processing Accounts of Inner Speech Pathology -- 12.3.1 Overview of Bayesian predictive processing -- 12.3.2 Enhanced standard approach -- 12.3.3 Active inference agency approach -- 12.3.4 Reality monitoring approach.

12.3.5 Summary of predictive processing and active inference approaches to inner speech and verbal imagery pathology -- 12.4 Conclusions -- References -- Index.