id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9340 Internal monologue - Wikipedia .html text/html 3334 437 64 According to one study, there is wide variation in how often people report experiencing internal monologue, and some people report very little or none.[27] Younger children are less likely to report using inner speech instead of visual thinking than older children and adults, though it is not known whether this is due to lack of inner speech, or due to insufficiently developed introspection.[28] This has been cited[citation needed] as evidence for the "language of thought" hypothesis, which posits an underlying language of the brain, or "mentalese", distinct from a thinker's native tongue. Much of the power of self-talk comes from the way it orchestrates a dialogue between different points of view." Based on interpretation of functional medical-imaging, Fernyhough believes that language system of internal dialogue works in conjunction with a part of the social cognition system (localized in the right hemisphere close to the intersection between the temporal and parietal lobes). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9340.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9340.txt