Children's Private Speech: An Overview of Theory and the Status of Research

By R. Diaz, L. Berk. 2014

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Cognitive Science & Psychology

1. Ben Alderson-Day
2. Charles Fernyhough
3. E. Meins
4. Paige E. Davis
5. Andrew Vincent
6. B. Brewer
7. J. V. Van Raalte
8. Christopher Jarrold

Citations in the corpus

• Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015, background): “Empirical research since Vygotsky’s time has challenged this unifunctional view of private speech, with self-directed talk now proposed to have multiple functions including pretense, practice for social encounters, language practice, and so on (Berk, 1992).”
• Individual differences in children's private speech: the role of imaginary companions. (2013, methodology): “Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Experimental Child Psychology journal homepage: www.elsevier .com/locate/ jecp Individual differences in children’s private speech: The role of imaginary companions 0022-0965 2013 The Authors.”
• Self-talk: Review and sport-specific model (2016, background): “In Western cultures, self-tak use increases when performing tasks that benefit from verbal mediation (Berk, 1999).”