When Ellie Shoja goes for a walk, she slips on her headphones and starts talking—but there’s no other voice ricocheting through the speakers. It’s merely a convenient way to disguise the ...

Language moves forward, step by step, so talking out loud to oneself helps sequence specific actions, while also facilitating the transitions between successive actions. Talking aloud to oneself ...

Do you ever talk to yourself? Out loud? Here, a psychotherapist explains why we do it, and offers tips on how to reap the mental health benefits of your self-talking habit, too. In a pre-Covid ...