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SUMMARY:Thinking aloud about mental voices - Dr Charles Fernyhough\, Depar
 tment of Psychology\, Durham University
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Developmental studies of self-directed speech\, including priv
 ate speech and inner speech\, point to it having important cognitive funct
 ions. Improved methodologies for studying these phenomena in children and 
 adults support Vygotskian/Lurian conceptions of inner speech as constituti
 ng a functional system\, whereby initially independent neural systems are 
 ‘wired together’ in new ways by social experience. I present some rece
 nt findings relevant to this account\, and consider prospects for a cognit
 ive neuroscience of inner speech that is sensitive to its development and 
 phenomenology. \n\nMy background is in developmental psychology. I took Pa
 rt II Psychology at Cambridge and stayed on to do doctoral research under 
 the supervision of Jim Russell. My research has mainly been in the areas o
 f private/inner speech and social influences on mentalising development. I
 n recent years I have been applying developmental ideas about inner speech
  to the study of auditory verbal hallucinations. I have produced two popul
 ar science books on psychology: The Baby in the Mirror: A child’s world 
 from birth to three (Granta\, 2008) and Pieces of Light: Memory and its st
 ories (Profile\, 2012). I am a part-time (0.5) Reader in Psychology at Dur
 ham University. \n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Experimental Psychol
 ogy
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