A Penny for Your Thoughts: Children's Inner Speech and Its Neuro-Development

Sharon Geva, Charles Fernyhough
2019 Frontiers in Psychology  
Inner speech emerges in early childhood, in parallel with the maturation of the dorsal language stream. To date, the developmental relations between these two processes have not been examined. We review evidence that the dorsal language stream has a role in supporting the psychological phenomenon of inner speech, before considering pediatric studies of the dorsal stream's anatomical development and evidence for its emerging functional roles. We examine possible causal accounts of the relations
more » ... etween these two developmental processes and consider their implications for phylogenetic theories about the evolution of inner speech and the accounts of the ontogenetic relations between language and cognition.
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01708 pmid:31474897 pmcid:PMC6702515 fatcat:n73ggn5slfflxbrxwc63ts6ydy