Language re-entrance and the 'inner voice'
Luc Steels · DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) · 2003
As soon as we stop talking aloud, we seem to experience a kind of 'inner voice', a steady stream of verbal fragments expressing ongoing thoughts. What kind of information processing structures are required to explain such a phenomenon? Why would an 'inner voice' be useful? How could it have arisen? This paper explores these questions and reports briefly some computational experiments to help elucidate them.