People who talk to themselves have a better memory than those who think in silence.

A research by Montreal University, and which involved getting 44 undergraduates to read words on a screen, also has come to the same conclusion.

The subjects were instructed to read the words in their heads; read silently but moving their lips; repeating aloud while looking at the screen, and repeating aloud to somebody else.

The researchers found the strongest results when addressing someone else, followed by talking to yourself, reported Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily of Russia.

Experts explain this by the fact that articulating without making a sound creates a sensorimotor link that increases our ability to remember. But if it is related to the functionality of speech, we remember even more.

In other words, the more ways we have to work with the information: moving our lips, speaking it out loud, and talking in front of someone else, the easier it is to recall, reported The Daily Mail.