anendophasia en · NOUN
Etymology
From an- + endophasia.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The absence of the experience of inner speech.
It is pretty clear that inner speech and anendophasia may represent the ebb and flow of thinking or information processing within the mind.
2024 February 23, Quan-Hoang Vuong, Minh-Hoang Nguyen, “Inner speech vs. anendophasia: Where information, serendipity, and the mental realm meet with nature?”, in PhilPapers:Anendophasia as we define it pertains to the subjective experience of inner speech.
2024, Johanne S. K. Nedergaard and Gary Lupyan, “Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia”, in Psychological Science, volume 35, number 7, →DOI:Because there is a crucial difference between self-reported low prevalence and complete lack of inner speech, I instead argue that the claim is noticeably divorced from both Nedergaard and Lupyan’s (2024) data and from other data they present in support of the existence of anendophasia.
2025, Andreas Lind, “Are There Really People With No Inner Voice? Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024)”, in Psychological Science, →DOI, page 1:Even though originality is essential, creativity is mainly based on self-generated mental experiences and would probably be inexistent in the complete absence of it (i.e. in a state of total aphantasia and anendophasia).
2024 May 24, Matheus Henrique Ferreiraa, Mirella Gualtieri, “Distinguishing the roles of mental imagery and relational reasoning in creativity: a review and methodological proposal”, in PsyArXiv:What methods are suitable for investigating the question of whether some people do not use IS [inner speech] at all (sometimes termed anauralia or anendophasia)?
2023 December, Charles Fernyhough, Anna M. Borghi, “Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool”, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, →DOI, page 1190: