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Evidence of Perspective-Taking Constraints in Children's On-Line Reference Resolution
Aparna Nadig,Julie C. Sedivy +1 more
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It is proposed that mutual knowledge is not distinct from other knowledge relevant for language processing, and exerts early effects on processing in proportion to its salience and reliability.Abstract:
Young children's communication has often been characterized as egocentric. Some researchers claim that the processing of language involves an initial stage that relies on egocentric heuristics, even in adults. Such an account, combined with general developmental difficulties with late-stage processes, could provide an explanation for much of children's egocentric communication. However, the experimental data reported in this article do not support such an account: In an elicited-production task, 5- to 6-year-old children were found to be sensitive to their partner's perspective. Moreover, in an on-line comprehension task, they showed sensitivity to common-ground information from the initial stages of language processing. We propose that mutual knowledge is not distinct from other knowledge relevant for language processing, and exerts early effects on processing in proportion to its salience and reliability.read more
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Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue
Martin J. Pickering,Simon Garrod +1 more
TL;DR: A mechanistic account of dialogue, the interactive alignment account, is proposed and used to derive a number of predictions about basic language processes, and the need for a grammatical framework that is designed to deal with language in dialogue rather than monologue is considered.
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Limits on theory of mind use in adults
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Analyzing ‘visual world’ eyetracking data using multilevel logistic regression
TL;DR: A new framework is offered that uses multilevel logistic regression (MLR) to analyze data from ‘visual world’ eyetracking experiments used in psycholinguistic research, making it possible to incorporate time as a continuous variable and gaze location as a categorical dependent variable.
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Online Usage of Theory of Mind Continues to Develop in Late Adolescence.
TL;DR: While theory of mind tasks are passed by age 4, data indicate that the interaction between theory ofMind and executive functions continues to develop in late adolescence, suggesting that theory ofmind use improves between late adolescence and adulthood.
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Using the visual world paradigm to study language processing: a review and critical evaluation.
TL;DR: The paradigm provides information about the way language users integrate linguistic information with information derived from the visual environment and is well suited to study one of the key issues of current cognitive psychology, namely the interplay between linguistic and visual information processing.
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