Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews June 22, 2026 Jeremy I Skipper, Daniel R Lametti, David W Green
Aberrations of inner speech have been linked to psychotic symptoms such as thought insertion and auditory verbal hallucinations. These symptoms may reflect failures of prediction and source monitoring. Normally, efference copies of speech motor commands are sent to auditory cortices and suppressed, helping distinguish self-generated from external input. If suppression malfunctions, predicted...
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2026.106805 (opens in new tab)
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Auditory cortex
Auditory verbal hallucinations
Efference copy
Inner speech
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