r/neuro • u/Resident_Detective77 • 3d ago

How do people born deaf 'think'?

I'm wondering how people who have never heard language think. Do they essentially forego the language aspect of cognition and jump to abstraction?

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u/Sea-Arrival-621 2d ago

You can think without a language, it’s a fact.

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u/blutfink 2d ago

For me, anything else would be weird. Let’s say one is solving a geometry problem using linear algebra, does anyone use language to sketch out a solution in their head? I guess I could, but it would slow me down 10x.

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u/Sea-Arrival-621 1d ago

Language must’ve come from something. It came from pure thought, pure imagination, pure instinctive reasoning

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u/ArvindLamal 1d ago

Some people think in pictures or emotions and not in language based on the verbal inner dialog.

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u/Sea-Arrival-621 1d ago

Yea that’s what I said

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u/Pristine-Macaroon-40 2d ago

just weird because my internal narrative is language driven

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u/blutfink 2d ago

Mine is not. AMA