anendophasia

From an- +‎ endophasia.

anendophasia (uncountable)

1. The absence of the experience of inner speech.
   • 2023 December, Charles Fernyhough, Anna M. Borghi, “Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool”, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, →DOI, page 1190:

     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)?

   • 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:

     Anendophasia as we define it pertains to the subjective experience of inner speech.

   • 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^[1]:

     It is pretty clear that inner speech and anendophasia may represent the ebb and flow of thinking or information processing within the mind.

   • 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^[2]:

     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).

   • 2025, Andreas Lind, “Are There Really People With No Inner Voice? Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024)”, in Psychological Science, →DOI, page 1:

     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.