Do you read aloud or silently in your minds?

Question

Most times while reading a new topic that I am not familiar with, I tend to read aloud in my mind. Yet that changes based on the content and the way it is written.When I'm focused, I notice that reading silently helps increase my reading speed and cognition, like everything is flowing in.Other times I don't seem to understand anything if I'm not reading it aloud in my mind.Has anyone noticed such a thing and if so can you share any tips or information you've learned about this behavior

chadcmulligan · Accepted Answer

I read a book on "speed reading" many years ago, it was big at the time, I think a lot of it has been debunked since then, at least the more extreme claims - read a book in an hour and so on. I found it useful at the time though, and it did increase my reading speed I believe.One of the things about speed reading they said was sub vocalisation slows you down - and they had some exercises if this was an issue iirc. A google turned up some speed reading classes on line so they may help, and there's a lot of books. I can't recall which one it was I read unfortunately.

westurner · Answer

Subvocalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubvocalizationSpeed reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading

giantg2 · Answer

I find that not subvocalizing is the fastest but least retentive. Subvocalization is slower but provides better retention (I do this most).I also do visualiazation, which is somewhere in between (like your flowing statement). In this, I view it like a movie in my head - the scene is visualized without subvocalization and the statements by the characters are subvocalized. This mostly works for novels, but can be used for nonfiction that describes how to perform some action or series of actions.