Psychologists Found That Talking To Yourself Could Be A Sign Of Higher Intelligence

Sometimes, talking to yourself, particularly if you use your own name in the conversation can be embarrassing. It may also make you look like you’re hallucinating since the whole purpose of talking out loud is to communicate with other people.

In fact, we all talk to ourselves silently every once in a while. It’s actually healthy, playing an important role in keeping your mind fit. It may help you plan actions, organise your thoughts, modulate emotions and consolidate memory. This means that it may help you control yourself.

Talking to yourself out loud could be an extension of this inner talk, triggered when a particular motor command is stimulated involuntarily.

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology published a study that showed talking to yourself could enable your brain to function more effectively at recognizing objects. It could also help you stimulate your brain’s memory centers.

In addition, saying the name of an object you are looking for out loud could enable your brain’s memory sensors to work optimally. On the other hand, in case you do not know the name of the object you are looking for, you could end up more confused.

That’s not all, researchers at Bangor University in the United Kingdom confirmed that talking to yourself out loud isn’t only useful but it could also suggest a higher level of intelligence.
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Furthermore, the participants received written instructions to either read them silently or out loud. Researchers measured the participants’ concentration as well as how they performed on tasks and found that those who read it out loud were more concentrated and memorized almost everything they read.

According to Dr. Paloma Mari-Beffa, a psychologist and co-author of the study, the benefits could come from just hearing yourself, because auditory commands are better controllers of behavior compared to written ones.

She views talking to yourself out loud as an extension of your inner silent talk that has been proven to help you organize your emotions, memories and thoughts, and even plan actions.
Source: ewao.com

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