{"id":8251,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/internal_speech\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:40","slug":"internal_speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/internal_speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sub-vocal speech articulation. &nbsp;Highly self-aware individuals use inner speech significantly more frequently compared to less self-aware individuals. &nbsp;Brain-imaging studies have shown that inner speech is associated with activation of the left inferior frontal area. &nbsp;In contrast, the monitoring of one&#8217;s own speech (auditory verbal imagery), by means of imagining the sentences they generated when spoken in another person&#8217;s voice, is associated with increases in not only in the same area, but also in the left premotor cortex, the supplementary motor area and the left temporal cortex. &nbsp;The notion of internal speech is central to developmental process of internalization as detailed in the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/gb\/knowledge\/isbn\/item1160663\/?site_locale=en_GB\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/gb\/knowledge\/isbn\/item1160663\/?site_locale=en_GB?target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lev Vygotsky<\/a> (1896-1934): it reflects how language serves to promotes cognitive development of children in that they increasingly use internal speech to direct their own behavior as did parental speech previously. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"brain_-neuro--_imaging\">Brain (neuro-) imaging<\/a>, <a href=\"frontal_cortex\">Frontal cortex<\/a>, <a href=\"internalization\">Internalization<\/a>, <a href=\"premotor_cortex\">Premotor cortex<\/a>, <a href=\"supplementary_motor_area_-sma-\">Supplementary motor area (SMA)<\/a>, <a href=\"temporal_lobe\">Temporal lobe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sub-vocal speech articulation. &nbsp;Highly self-aware individuals use inner speech significantly more frequently compared to less self-aware individuals. &nbsp;Brain-imaging studies have shown that inner speech is associated with activation of the left inferior frontal area. &nbsp;In contrast, the monitoring of one&#8217;s own speech (auditory verbal imagery), by means of imagining the sentences they generated when spoken &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/internal_speech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Internal speech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}