Inner Speech in attentional tasks: Talking matters : Poster presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Virtual Psychonomics. USA.
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Inner Speech in attentional tasks: Talking matters : Poster presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Virtual Psychonomics. USA.

UniDistance Suisse

  • 2020
English Self-talk and inner speech and its beneficial effects have been investigated in applied sport as well as developmental psychology. In these fields, the role of inner speech in successful goal-directed behaviour has been established in an experimental approach by asking participants to engage in various speech-related activities such as rehearsing instructions or performing articulatory suppression. In the studies presented here, we took an inter-individual differences approach. Participants either performed a Simon task in which they had to ignore the irrelevant location of the stimulus (Study 1) or engaged in paradigms (e.g., Stroop, flanker and task switching, Study 2) measuring cognitive control processes. In addition, questionnaires regarding manner and frequency of inner speech habits were assessed. Using hierarchical linear modeling analysis, we found that engagement in inner speech reduced conflict effects significantly and thereby helped performance. This occurred even when differences in working memory capacity and intelligence were controlled for (Study 2). We argue that evaluative and motivating inner speech helps in maintaining attentional focus and reduces experienced interference.
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