The silent inner world of anendophasia has introduced me to a new term for people without inner speech / an inner monologue. A kind of audio version of aphantasia.

Inner speech’, ‘verbal thoughts’, or an ‘inner voice’ — whatever name you prefer, this phenomenon has been widely considered a universal aspect of the human experience. However, recent research has challenged this idea. Now, a new paper in Psychological Science proposes a name for an absence of inner speech — ‘anendophasia’ — and finds that it affects people’s performance on certain cognitive tasks.

Great to see this getting an official name. I first learned about it via this video a few years back, which clearly found an anendophasic(?) audience as it has more than 7 million views than the next most popular video on the channel.

The idea of neuronormative continues to dissolve. There is no normal. We’re all individuals.