TY - CONF AU - Forgács, Bálint AU - Tauzin, Tibor AU - Gergely, György AU - Gervain, Judit TI - Newborns take into account the communicative dimension of language T2 - BCCCD 2022 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development PY - 2022 SP - 124 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34133096 ID - 34133096 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Forgács, Bálint AU - Tauzin, Tibor AU - Gergely, György AU - Gervain, Judit TI - The newborn brain is sensitive to the communicative function of language JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 12 PY - 2022 IS - 1 PG - 6 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-022-05122-0 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32622716 ID - 32622716 N1 - Export Date: 1 June 2022 Correspondence Address: Forgács, B.; Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, 45 rue des Saints Pères, France; email: forgacs.balint@ppk.elte.hu AB - Recent studies demonstrated neural systems in bilateral fronto-temporal brain areas in newborns specialized to extract linguistic structure from speech. We hypothesized that these mechanisms show additional sensitivity when identically structured different pseudowords are used communicatively in a turn-taking exchange by two speakers. In an fNIRS experiment newborns heard pseudowords sharing ABB repetition structure in three conditions: two voices turn-takingly exchanged different pseudowords (Communicative); the different pseudowords were produced by a (Single Speaker); two voices turn-takingly repeated identical pseudowords (Echoing). Here we show that left fronto-temporal regions (including Broca’s area) responded more to the Communicative than the other conditions. The results demonstrate that newborns’ left hemisphere brain areas show additional activation when various pseudowords sharing identical structure are exchanged in turn-taking alternation by two speakers. This indicates that language processing brain areas at birth are not only sensitive to the structure but to the functional use of language: communicative information transmission. Newborns appear to be equipped not only with innate systems to identify the structural properties of language but to identify its use, communication itself, that is, information exchange between third party social agents—even outside of the mother–infant dyad. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Tauzin, Tibor AU - Gergely, Gyorgy TI - Co-dependency of exchanged behaviors is a cue for agency attribution in 10-month-olds JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 11 PY - 2021 IS - 1 PG - 7 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-021-97811-5 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32319882 ID - 32319882 AB - Goal-directed social interactions (whether instrumental or communicative) involve co-dependent, partially predictable actions of interacting agents as social goals cannot be achieved by continuously exchanging the same, perfectly predictable, or completely random behaviors. We investigated whether 10-month-olds are sensitive to the co-dependence and degree of predictability in an interactive context where unfamiliar entities exchanged either perfectly predictable (identical), partially predictable (co-dependent), or non-predictable (random) signal sequences. We found that when-following the interactive exchanges-one of the entities turned in the direction of one of two lateral target objects, infants looked more at the indicated referent, but only in the partially predictable signals condition. This shows that infants attributed agency to the orienting entity and interpreted its turning action as a referential object-directed action. The present findings suggest that the co-dependency and partial predictability of exchanged behaviors can serve as an abstract structural cue to attribute intentional agency and recognize goal-directed social interactions. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Forgács, Bálint AU - Tauzin, Tibor AU - Gergely, György AU - Gervain, Judit TI - Humans at birth appreciate the communicative power of language T2 - 12th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science Linguistic & Cognitive Foundations of Meaning PY - 2021 SP - 1 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32259727 ID - 32259727 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Forgács, Bálint AU - Tauzin, Tibor AU - Gergely, György AU - Gervain, Judit TI - Humans are sensitive to the communicative dimension of language at birth T2 - 5th international conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, ESCAN 2021 PY - 2021 SP - 350 EP - 351 PG - 2 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32259703 ID - 32259703 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Tauzin, Tibor AU - Bohn, Manuel AU - Gergely, György AU - Call, Josep TI - Context-sensitive adjustment of pointing in great apes JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 10 PY - 2020 IS - 1 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-019-56183-7 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31174298 ID - 31174298 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Tauzin, Tibor TI - The frequency of referent objects influences expectations about label length JF - ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA J2 - ACTA PSYCHOL VL - 196 PY - 2019 SP - 70 EP - 74 PG - 5 SN - 0001-6918 DO - 10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.04.010 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31084409 ID - 31084409 AB - Earlier studies suggest that word length is influenced by the linguistic context to be precise and concise at the same time. The present study investigates whether the referential-situational context can also have an effect on the expected length of words. To test this assumption a salient property of the situational context, that is, the frequency of the unfamiliar referents was varied. The participants watched pictures of novel objects in the observational phase, presented either frequently or rarely. In the test phase they saw the same pictures of objects one by one and were asked to select one of two unfamiliar labels, which according to them could be the name of the object displayed. The two labels provided for each object at test had either short or long orthographic length. It was hypothesized that participants will select the long label more frequently when they had to guess the name of rare objects in contrast to frequent ones. The findings supported this hypothesis. Rare objects were paired with long labels significantly more often than frequent objects, resulting in a significant difference also when contrasted to chance-level. The results were similar if abbreviated or completely different label pairs were presented to the participants in the test phase suggesting that the situational context is taken into account when language users infer word form. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Tauzin, Tibor AU - Gergely, G. TI - Variability of signal sequences in turn-taking exchanges induces agency attribution in 10.5-mo-olds JF - PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA J2 - P NATL ACAD SCI USA VL - 116 PY - 2019 IS - 31 SP - 15441 EP - 15446 PG - 6 SN - 0027-8424 DO - 10.1073/pnas.1816709116 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/30927582 ID - 30927582 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Tauzin, Tibor AU - Gergely, Gy TI - Communicative mind-reading in preverbal infants JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 8 PY - 2018 PG - 9 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-018-27804-4 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/3388730 ID - 3388730 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - THES AU - Tauzin, Tibor TI - The comparative investigation of the Pedagogical Stance The role of ostensive-communicative cues in social learning in dogs and human infants PB - Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem PY - 2017 SP - 135 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/3412159 ID - 3412159 LA - English DB - MTMT ER -