Evidence from cognitive psychology, reading research, and neuroimaging consistently demonstrates that people engage in subvocalization or covert articulation during internal monologue and silent reading.
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Phonological coding during reading.
2014 · cited by 45
Paper 2 discusses phonological coding and silent reading, highlighting the role of sound-based codes during internal processing.
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Altered resting functional connectivity of expressive language regions after speed reading training.
2014 · cited by 4
Paper 8 describes reading speed training aimed at reducing the practice of articulating words in one's thoughts, known as subvocalization.
An open dataset of multidimensional signals based on different speech patterns in pragmatic Mandarin.
2025 · cited by 1
Paper 10 notes that inner and imagined speech share underlying neurological signals that can be captured across multiple modalities.
Deep learning for inner speech recognition: a pilot comparative study of EEGNet and a spectro-temporal Transformer on bimodal EEG-fMRI data.
2025 · cited by 1
Paper 11 investigates inner speech classification using EEG and fMRI, confirming the physiological reality of covert articulation.