Brain and Behavior | 2021
Keeping the inner voice inside the head, a pilot fMRI study
Abstract
The inner voice is experienced during thinking in words (inner speech) and silent reading and evokes brain activity that is highly similar to that associated with external voices. Yet while the inner voice is experienced in internal space (inside the head), external voices (one s own and those of others) are experienced in external space. In this paper, we investigate the neural basis of this differential spatial localization.