INSL – Current Approaches to Inner Speech and Inner Language

The investigation of inner speech and the contribution of linguistic processes and representations to cognition has a long tradition in various disciplines ranging from philosophy to psychology and cognitive neuroscience. As an elusive topic the target of which cannot be directly observed, the tools that are used to describe inner speech and inner language qualitatively and quantitatively, are diverse across disciplines. This workshop would like to bring together international scholars that have worked on inner speech and language from different research perspectives.  This includes philosophical theorizing, descriptive and experimental approaches as well as neurophysiological tools to assess inner speech and inner language. The goal of the workshop is to advance the understanding of the phenomenology of inner speech (including questions about its various forms and domains) as well as the supporting neural mechanisms contributing to it, and, more importantly, to identify research gaps that should be tackled in the future.