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In fiction, when one person reads the mind of another, it is often described as being able to hear this internal monologue as if it were said out loud.
When people read they actually move their muscles ever so slightly as if they were speaking, while they are internally monologuing; this is called subvocalizing.
There is uncertainty about what the source of these internal sentences are in some conditions. Attribution for a recently produced internal sentence may lead to concerns over schizophrenia, hallucinations, or hearing voices. Experiments have shown that "cerebral asymmetry is reduced in schizophrenia." That while performing "verb-generation" and "semantic decision" tasks the people with schizophrenia showed an "increased activation in the right hemisphere." While in psychosis a typical schizophrenic may speak in word salads and may write profusely.
Contemplation attempts to calm the internal voice by various means.
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