Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences

Alderson-Day, Ben; Bernini, Marco; Fernyhough, Charles

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2017.01.003

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“…Inner speech is a highly flexible and varied phenomenon, and people frequently report experiencing condensed or fragmentary forms of inner speech in questionnaire surveys [ 26 , 27 ].These variations may not be easily identifiable when using physiological measures of inner speech. Alderson-Day & Fernyhough [ 13 ] argue that much of the time, inner speech could be a basic, condensed representation containing abstract semantic, syntactic and phonological information, which only becomes expanded and more articulated under certain conditions (e.g.…”

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Inner experience differs in rumination and distraction without a change in electromyographical correlates of inner speech

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Ruminative thought is a style of thinking which involves repetitively focusing upon one’s own negative mood, its causes and its consequences. The negative effects of rumination are well-documented, but comparatively little is known about how rumination is experienced. The evaluative nature of rumination suggests that it could involve more inner speech than non-ruminative states. The present study ( N = 31) combined facial electromyography and self-report questionnaires to determine the type of inner experience that occurs in rumination. The results showed that induced rumination involved similar levels of muscle activity related to inner speech as periods of induced distraction. However, experience sampling and questionnaire responses showed that rumination involved more verbal thought, and also involved more evaluative and dialogic inner speech than distraction. These findings contribute to the understanding of inner speech as a flexible phenomenon and confirms the importance of employing multiple methods to investigate inner speech. Future research should clarify the link between inner speech in rumination and its negative effects on wellbeing.

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“…A follow-up study in a similar sample also implicated relations with self-esteem and dissociation, with the latter partly mediating the link between inner speech and hallucination-proneness ( Alderson-Day et al, 2014 ). Since then the VISQ has been used to assess inner speech in people with psychosis ( de Sousa, Sellwood, Spray, Fernyhough, & Bentall, 2016 ) and explore relations with reading imagery ( Alderson-Day, Bernini, & Fernyhough, 2017 ), along with being adapted for use in Spanish ( Perona-Garcelán, Bellido-Zanin, Senín-Calderón, López-Jiménez, & Rodríguez-Testal, 2017 ), Colombian ( Tamayo-Agudelo, Vélez-Urrego, Gaviria-Castaño, & Perona-Garcelán, 2016 ), and Chinese populations ( Ren, Wang, & Jarrold, 2016 ). Self-reported dialogic inner speech on the VISQ has also been observed to correlate with neural activation of areas linked to producing inner dialogue during an fMRI task ( Alderson-Day et al, 2016 ).…”

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The varieties of inner speech questionnaire – Revised (VISQ-R): Replicating and refining links between inner speech and psychopathology

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“…This notion of fictional worlds lingering in the imagination is supported by empirical work from Alderson‐Day, Bernini, and Fernyhough () on “experiential crossing” in literature. This is the phenomenon of fictional voices and characters being experienced by readers in their daily lives, beyond the immediate context of reading.…”

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Narrative Fiction and Epistemic Injustice

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2019

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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This article looks at the role that narrative fiction—film, television, and literature—can play in countering and mitigating epistemic injustice. The notion of epistemic injustice is explicated by Miranda Fricker as a distinctive kind of injustice done to a knower in her role as a knower and is identified in two forms: testimonial injustice and hermeneutical injustice. The operation of both types of epistemic injustice depend upon the social imagination and the shared concepts of social identity within it—what it is to be a man, woman, straight, black, gay, transgender. It is here that narrative fiction becomes pertinent, as it has the potential to influence the social imagination for the better. Fricker uses fictional scenarios to clarify her notions of epistemic injustice; I argue that aside from elucidating analysis of our epistemic practices, fiction can also provide epistemic correctives. In the first through fourth sections of the paper, I explore ways in which narrative fiction can combat testimonial and hermeneutical injustice. The fifth section then considers the unique features of narrative fiction in this capacity to resist epistemic injustice and argues that it capitalizes on advantages that other approaches cannot share in.

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Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences

Abstract: HighlightsVivid experiences of characters implicate simulation processes during reading.Reading imagery is related to features of inner speech and hallucination-proneness.Qualitative analysis highlights involuntary experiences of characters and voices.

Cited by 40 publications

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Inner experience differs in rumination and distraction without a change in electromyographical correlates of inner speech

Inner experience differs in rumination and distraction without a change in electromyographical correlates of inner speech

The varieties of inner speech questionnaire – Revised (VISQ-R): Replicating and refining links between inner speech and psychopathology

Narrative Fiction and Epistemic Injustice

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