@article{MTMT:32622716, title = {The newborn brain is sensitive to the communicative function of language}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32622716}, author = {Forgács, Bálint and Tauzin, Tibor and Gergely, György and Gervain, Judit}, doi = {10.1038/s41598-022-05122-0}, journal-iso = {SCI REP}, journal = {SCIENTIFIC REPORTS}, volume = {12}, unique-id = {32622716}, issn = {2045-2322}, abstract = {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.}, year = {2022}, eissn = {2045-2322}, orcid-numbers = {Forgács, Bálint/0000-0002-2191-5459} } @article{MTMT:32319882, title = {Co-dependency of exchanged behaviors is a cue for agency attribution in 10-month-olds}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32319882}, author = {Tauzin, Tibor and Gergely, Gyorgy}, doi = {10.1038/s41598-021-97811-5}, journal-iso = {SCI REP}, journal = {SCIENTIFIC REPORTS}, volume = {11}, unique-id = {32319882}, issn = {2045-2322}, abstract = {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.}, year = {2021}, eissn = {2045-2322} } @article{MTMT:31613829, title = {Electrophysiological investigation of infants’ understanding of understanding}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31613829}, author = {Forgács, Bálint and Gervain, Judit and Parise, Eugenio and Csibra, Gergely and Gergely, György and Baross, Júlia and Király, Ildikó}, doi = {10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100783}, journal-iso = {DEV COGN NEUROS-NETH}, journal = {DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE}, volume = {43}, unique-id = {31613829}, issn = {1878-9293}, abstract = {Social cognition might play a critical role in language acquisition and comprehension, as mindreading may be necessary to infer the intended meaning of linguistic expressions uttered by communicative partners. In three electrophysiological experiments, we explored the interplay between belief attribution and language compre- hension of 14-month-old infants. First, we replicated our earlier nding: infants produced an N400 effect to correctly labelled objects when the labels did not match a communicative partner’s beliefs about the referents. Second, we observed no N400 when we replaced the object with another category member. Third, when we named the objects incorrectly for infants, but congruently with the partner’s false belief, we observed large N400 responses, suggesting that infants retained their own perspective in addition to that of the partner. We thus interpret the observed social N400 effect as a communicational expectancy indicator because it was contingent not on the attribution of false beliefs but on semantic expectations by both the self and the communicative partner. Additional exploratory analyses revealed an early, frontal, positive-going electrophysiological response in all three experiments, which was contingent on infants’ computing the comprehension of the social partner based on attributed beliefs.}, keywords = {EEG; SOCIAL COGNITION; FALSE-BELIEF; N400; Language Acquisition (41600); nyelvelsajátítás; ERPs; Theory-of-mind; tudatelmélet; early social cognition}, year = {2020}, eissn = {1878-9307}, orcid-numbers = {Forgács, Bálint/0000-0002-2191-5459; Király, Ildikó/0000-0002-4857-1764} } @CONFERENCE{MTMT:31661179, title = {What representations drive retrieval-dependent eye-movements?}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31661179}, author = {Johannes, Mahr and Yul, Kang and Andrási, Krisztina and Nagy, Márton Gáspár and Lengyel, Máté and Csibra, Gergely}, booktitle = {DUCOG : Computational Rationality : XI. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, 23–26 May 2019, Dubrovnik, Croatia}, unique-id = {31661179}, year = {2019}, pages = {24-24}, orcid-numbers = {Nagy, Márton Gáspár/0000-0002-3405-7852} } @article{MTMT:31084409, title = {The frequency of referent objects influences expectations about label length}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31084409}, author = {Tauzin, Tibor}, doi = {10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.04.010}, journal-iso = {ACTA PSYCHOL}, journal = {ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA}, volume = {196}, unique-id = {31084409}, issn = {0001-6918}, abstract = {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.}, keywords = {pragmatics; Referent frequency; Word length; Situational context; Communicative efficiency}, year = {2019}, eissn = {1873-6297}, pages = {70-74} } @article{MTMT:30812785, title = {Beyond the Isolated Brain: The Promise and Challenge of Interacting Minds}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/30812785}, author = {Wheatley, T and Boncz, Ádám and Toni, I and Stolk, A}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuron.2019.05.009}, journal-iso = {NEURON}, journal = {NEURON}, volume = {103}, unique-id = {30812785}, issn = {0896-6273}, abstract = {As scientists, we brainstorm and develop experimental designs with our colleagues and students. Paradoxically, this teamwork has produced a field focused nearly exclusively on mapping the brain as if it evolved in isolation. Here, we discuss promises and challenges in advancing our understanding of how human minds connect during social interaction.}, year = {2019}, eissn = {1097-4199}, pages = {186-188} } @inbook{MTMT:30656119, title = {Interpersonal Neuroscience}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/30656119}, author = {Thalia, Wheatley and Boncz, Ádám}, booktitle = {The Cognitive Neurosciences}, unique-id = {30656119}, year = {2019}, pages = {252} } @article{MTMT:3419170, title = {Fourteen‐Month‐Old Infants Track the Language Comprehension of Communicative Partners.}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/3419170}, author = {Forgács, Bálint and Eugenio, Parise and Csibra, Gergely and Gergely, György and Lisa, Jacquey and Judit, Gervain}, doi = {10.1111/desc.12751}, journal-iso = {DEVELOPMENTAL SCI}, journal = {DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE}, volume = {22}, unique-id = {3419170}, issn = {1363-755X}, year = {2019}, eissn = {1467-7687}, orcid-numbers = {Forgács, Bálint/0000-0002-2191-5459} } @article{MTMT:30309602, title = {Retrospective attribution of false beliefs in 3-year-old children}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/30309602}, author = {Király, Ildikó and Oláh, Katalin and Csibra, Gergely and Kovács, Ágnes Melinda}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.1803505115}, journal-iso = {P NATL ACAD SCI USA}, journal = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA}, volume = {115}, unique-id = {30309602}, issn = {0027-8424}, year = {2018}, eissn = {1091-6490}, pages = {11477-11482}, orcid-numbers = {Király, Ildikó/0000-0002-4857-1764; Oláh, Katalin/0000-0001-9570-3558} } @article{MTMT:3302475, title = {Osztenzív kommunikáció és pragmatikai következtetések preverbális csecsemőknél}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/3302475}, author = {Tauzin, Tibor and Gergely, Gy}, journal-iso = {ÁLTALÁNOS NYELVÉSZETI TANULMÁNYOK}, journal = {ÁLTALÁNOS NYELVÉSZETI TANULMÁNYOK}, volume = {29}, unique-id = {3302475}, issn = {0569-1338}, abstract = {A specializált kommunikatív eszközökkel, például szavakkal vagy gesztusokkal végzett rugalmas kommunikatív információátvitel képessége csak az emberi fajra jellemző. Habár eredetileg azt feltételezték, hogy ez kizárólag a humán specifikus nyelvi képességek eredménye, az újabb elméletek és empirikus adatok arra utalnak, hogy az általános kommunikatív képességek teszik lehetővé, hogy felismerjünk, értelmezzünk és részt vegyünk másokkal folytatott kommunikatív információcserében. A jelen cikkben az ember egyedi kommunikációs készségének evolúciós értelemben régi, kognitív és pragmatikai alapjait vizsgáljuk majd, és amellett érvelünk, hogy kommunikatív és informatív szándék megértése pragmatikai- következtetési folyamatokon nyugszik, ami lehetővé teszi a kommunikatív szándék felismerését és a referens, valamint az informatív tartalom megértését.}, year = {2017}, pages = {267-285} }