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

Geva, S.; Fernyhough, C.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01708

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

Geva, S.; Fernyhough, C.

Authors

S. Geva

Professor Charles Fernyhough c.p.fernyhough@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

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 between 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.

Citation

Geva, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2019). A Penny for Your Thoughts: Children’s Inner Speech and Its Neuro-Development. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1708. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01708

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Jul 9, 2019
Online Publication Date	Aug 14, 2019
Publication Date	Aug 14, 2019
Deposit Date	Aug 14, 2019
Publicly Available Date	Aug 14, 2019
Journal	Frontiers in Psychology
Print ISSN	1664-1078
Electronic ISSN	1664-1078
Publisher	Frontiers Media
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	10
Article Number	1708
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01708
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1325245

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