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I find it hard to believe I'm subvocalizing when I read at my normal pace on "average" text (i.e., not academically-dense), on the grounds that I can't read alo
by jerf 7y ago
I find it hard to believe I'm subvocalizing when I read at my normal pace on "average" text (i.e., not academically-dense), on the grounds that I can't read aloud at anything even remotely resembling the speed with which I normally read, no matter how hard I may try.
I can believe that various stray neural impulses may still end up getting sent, or that I subvocalize key words and my conscious self doesn't notice. But in the sense that I think people expect, where we could just take the subvocalizations and somehow lift them up to vocalizations with some obvious transform and understand the results? No way.
There's a world of difference between "everyone whether they realize it or not are fully reading aloud every word they read, just too quietly to hear" and "various small stray impulses may make their way down to the vocal cords". Perhaps there is lack of clarity about what "subvocalization" means?
I also find it hard to believe on the grounds that while by no means can I sustain this for long periods of time, I can be speaking to someone while reading something else. Generally I have my sentence "queued up", so to speak, so it isn't consuming the executive function, while I'm using the executive function to read. Even thought this may be for small single-digit number of seconds, that's still plenty to find it hard to believe that I am simultaneously "subvocalizing" what I'm reading while I'm also vocalizing a completely different set of words, which may not even be on the same train of thought.