📝We verbalize/visualize thoughts to activate our brain “from outside”
We usually verbalize or visualize our thoughts (“internal voice”). My theory is that this happens to activate the language/image processing parts of our brain.
Supporting arguments
- From Weinschenk2011: the visual cortex is more active when we’re imagining a thing than when we actually perceive it.
Q
- What are the implications of this?
- (?) This “design” helps to reuse our brain parts.
- (?) Thoughts are generated by another part of our brain and they are very similar to outside dialog.