Salzburg Workshop on Inner Speech

There will be no contributed papers, but all lectures and the poster session will be free and open to the public, and visitors will be welcome to attend. All talks will be held in person. This will not be an on-line or hybrid event.

For more information about the schedule of talks and the locations of talks, please write to Prof. Christopher Gauker ([email protected]) before April 23, 2026.

Schedule:

Schedule:

Thursday, May 21, morning:

Lectures by:
Hannes Rakoczy, Universität Göttingen, Psychology, “Language as motor of cognitive development and medium of thought?”
Shivam Patel, Florida State University, Philosophy, “Inner Speech and Second-Personal Thought”

Thursday, May 21, afternoon:

Posters by:
Mathijs Geurts, University of Salzburg, Philosophy, “A second look at perspective in self-talk”
Viktoria Groiß, University of Vienna, Linguistics, “Levels of inner speech: Oscillatory dynamics of phonological and semantic inner speech.”
Jonida Kodra, University of Osnabrück, Philosophy, “Auditory verbal hallucinations, inner speech and imagination.”
Daniel Müller, University of Osnabrück, Philosophy, “The pangelonium model of inner speech”
Xiaomeng Sun, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Linguistics, “What interactional language reveals about self-talk: Evidence from Mandarin sentence-final particles”

Lecture by:
Daphne Bernués, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Philosophy, “Who's at the wheel?: The agential impoverishment of inner speech”

Friday, May 22, morning:

Lectures by:
Dorit Bar-on, University of Connecticut, Philosophy,  “Expression and inner speech: speaking one’s mind in one’s mind” 
Bo Yao, Lancaster University, Cognitive Neuroscience, “Rethinking inner speech through linguistic active inference”

Friday, May 22, afternoon:

Lectures by:
Guy Dove, University of Louisville, Philosophy, “Thinking with words and talking to ourselves”
Martina Wiltschko, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Linguistics, “Can I be you? The view from linguistics”

Saturday, May 23, morning:

Lectures by:
Justin D'Ambrosio, University of St. Andrews, Philosophy, “Inner speech: Three approaches to the ontological question”
Johanna Nedergaard, University of Copenhagen, Cognitive Science, “The absence of an inner voice: Evidence, open questions, and the road ahead “

Saturday, May 23, afternoon:

Lectures by:
Daniel Gregory, University of Valencia, Philosophy, “Inner speech, fragmentation, and metacognition”
Nikola Kompa, University of Osnabrück, “Inner speech and flawed reasoning”