Interfering With Inner Speech Selectively Disrupts Problem Solving and Is Linked With Real-World Executive Functioning

Conclusion These results provide further evidence for specific links between verbal thinking and EF (particularly using multifactorial tasks of planning) and suggest that inner speech might serve as a key intervention target in clinical disorders where EF deficits are prominent.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research