Inner reading voices: An overlooked form of inner speech

摘要: Inner speech is theorized to be the basis for auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), but few empirical studies have examined phenomenology of inner speech, particularly while reading. One hundred and sixty posts from a popular question answer community website were analyzed using qualitative content analysis approach, examine reading voices (IRVs). Results indicated that many individuals report routinely experiencing IRVs, which often qualities overt such as recognizable identity, gender, pitch, loudness emotional tone. IRVs sometimes identified readers’ own voices, other people. Some reported continuous with audible thoughts. Both controllable uncontrollable reported. may provide evidence individual variation in imagery vividness support accounts AVHs. useful model studying AVHs non-clinical p...