You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right?

Re:You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right? by finnh on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:06PM (#11163447)

The majority of the time when I'm reading, I don't hear anything at all. So, you'll probably be unsurprised by my answer to your second question - I generally don't hear my voice (or any voice) when I'm thinking. That does happen sometime, but only when my task is particularly language-focused, like when I'm writing.

When I'm writing _english_, that is. No voices, no language when coding.

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Re:You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right? by odonnellryan on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:10PM (#11163467)

That's interesting, because I was wondering "what must it be like to not hear a voice when reading?" and until you said the bit about coding, I didn't know.

Then I realized the same thing. I don't hear a voice when I'm coding or reading code. Odd.

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Re:You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right? by eidorb on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @03:35AM (#11165341)

Ah-ha! This was a great insight for me. I can't not subvocalise when reading. But I too certainly don't subvocalise when reading code. Now I know what it's like.

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