Every time we make a difficult choice, we always have a storm in our heads, two points of view opposing each other, trying to convince each other, and when reading a book, there will often be a voice in your head to help you read. But have you thought about a question? Where do the voices in our hearts or minds come from? Is this voice the voice of the soul?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > internal language</h1>
This question is not only my curiosity and yours, but scientists have also conducted a systematic study of this phenomenon.
The scientist who first raised this question was a psychologist from the former Soviet Union who named the image of this language the inner language. But limited by the science and technology of the time, he could not thoroughly study how this internal language was formed, which organ in our body controlled it, and what was the principle of its formation? None of this can be studied.
However, with the continuous advancement of science and technology, CT technology came into being, and we can explore the structure of our brain through CT images, so as to further study the birth of internal language and its production principle.
The picture shows a CT image of the brain
In fact, as early as 1861, humans have realized that there is a region of the brain that can control language function, that is, the Broca region. When this area is damaged, our language function is also affected, not only does it control our external language, but our internal language is also controlled by this area.
In fact, there are many similarities between the formation of internal language and external language, not only are they controlled by the Broca region at the same time, but also when the internal language is carried out, the breathing rhythm generated is almost exactly the same as our normal speech. Although the internal language does not go out, it will only linger in our minds, but at some times when we carry out the internal language, we will also mobilize the muscles of the throat, and there is a feeling that we are about to blurt out.
The red circle in the figure shows the Broca's district
But at the same time, we can't simply classify internal language as language that we humans don't send out, like text messages that we don't send.
First of all, from the physiological structure of the analysis, we will activate the auditory system when we speak, so that we can also hear our own voice, and when we carry out internal language, we will not activate our own auditory system, so we sometimes think that the internal language is communicating with ourselves, so that we forget the things around us.
The figure shows the nervous system distribution of vision and hearing
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" > the inner language becomes the voice of the soul</h1>
When we are young, we believe more in the existence of ghosts, believe in the saying of souls, and even many people say that they have encountered elves when they are young.
Another important reason why we believe this is that our own three views and experiences at that time are not enough to support us to understand the things in front of us, and another important reason is that we have not been able to effectively distinguish between language and internal language at that time. Think of the inner language as the voice of the soul, or even as its own.
After research has shown that human beings cannot distinguish between external language and internal language in childhood, they will treat it as another individual and treat it as another subject, so there will be a lot of interesting things. For example, he said to his parents that he had met the elf and spoken to him, or simply talked to the air by himself, and even sometimes shook hands with the air, thinking that the person in front of him was his friend.
As they age and see more and more, children begin to be able to distinguish between external and internal languages, so that encounters with elves disappear.
So you don't have to worry about anything, people will lose their magic when they grow up, and people can't become fairies when they grow up, these are the jokes that we make when we are children who can't distinguish between internal language and external language.
The picture shows the division of labor areas of the brain
Not only children, but also those who have auditory hallucinations can also confuse internal and external language errors at the onset of the disease, and thus mistakenly think that they are hearing something else.
When our brains are fully developed and have enough experience, we can distinguish the difference between internal language and external language, but why are there still people with auditory hallucinations? This brings us to the sma area of our brains. The reason why humans can accurately distinguish between internal language and external language is because when we are performing internal language, the sma region in the brain is activated, which can make us realize that we are performing internal language.
Patients with auditory hallucinations have symptoms of auditory hallucinations because in the process of performing internal language, this area of his is not activated, resulting in symptoms of auditory hallucinations.
Circled in the figure is the SMA area
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" > voice in the soul also has an accent and can even switch genders</h1>
British scientists Emma Barber and Ruth Phyllis have done such an interesting experiment.
The northern and southern accents of England are not the same, and when they read certain poems, depending on the accent, the northern readers will press the rhyme, and the southern readers will not press the rhyme. Therefore, scientists have discovered an interesting phenomenon through eye experiments. Even when reading silently, these experimenters will subconsciously bring their accents to the internal language, in the eyeball experiment, even if the word does not rhyme in the non-accented English, but in the process of their internal language, they will subconsciously adjust the pronunciation and add the accent to make it rhyme.
In fact, this phenomenon also occurs from time to time in Chinese, the most common situation appears in our Spelling of Hanyu Pinyin, we are likely to spell it according to the pronunciation spelling with accent when typing, the result is that we can't find the word we want to type for half a day, and it only reacts back, the original word is not this pronunciation in Mandarin, so it will be found for half a day, which is enough to prove that the internal language also has an accent.
At the same time, the internal language will also change gender, because it is not affected by the physiological conditions of the body, we will be free to imagine and storm in our minds, and even imagine ourselves as the opposite sex. At this time, our internal language can also become a male or female voice, because the internal language is not different from the external language, it does not need to make a sound through a specific vocal cord vibration, we only need the activity of the cerebral cortex, when we need to make a female voice, we only need to mobilize our memory, select the voice of the opposite sex can easily achieve gender conversion in the internal language.
Internal language is actually a very normal physiological phenomenon in our human body, after reading this article, we don't believe that when we were young, we can see the soul meet the childish words of the elf.