Mestroyer comments on Mental Subvocalization --"Saying" Words In Your Mind As You Read - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mestroyer 15 February 2014 03:00:50AM 0 points [-]

I don't usually imagine a voice (my own or someone else's) when reading things. But I experience some kind of abstraction of having heard or said the word without a voice attached. I think out every syllable like this. Only when skimming do I not do this. My couple of experimental attempts to not do this while really getting the point of what I read just now were failures (I tried it on Slashdot news stories).