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 - JOUR AU - Forgács, Bálint AU - Gervain, Judit AU - Parise, Eugenio AU - Csibra, Gergely AU - Gergely, György AU - Baross, Júlia AU - Király, Ildikó TI - Electrophysiological investigation of infants’ understanding of understanding JF - DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE J2 - DEV COGN NEUROS-NETH VL - 43 PY - 2020 PG - 8 SN - 1878-9293 DO - 10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100783 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31613829 ID - 31613829 AB - 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. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Johannes, Mahr AU - Yul, Kang AU - Andrási, Krisztina AU - Nagy, Márton Gáspár AU - Lengyel, Máté AU - Csibra, Gergely TI - What representations drive retrieval-dependent eye-movements? T2 - DUCOG : Computational Rationality : XI. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, 23–26 May 2019, Dubrovnik, Croatia PY - 2019 SP - 24 EP - 24 PG - 1 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31661179 ID - 31661179 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 - Wheatley, T AU - Boncz, Ádám AU - Toni, I AU - Stolk, A TI - Beyond the Isolated Brain: The Promise and Challenge of Interacting Minds JF - NEURON J2 - NEURON VL - 103 PY - 2019 IS - 2 SP - 186 EP - 188 PG - 3 SN - 0896-6273 DO - 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.05.009 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/30812785 ID - 30812785 AB - 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. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Thalia, Wheatley AU - Boncz, Ádám ED - David, Poeppel ED - George, R Mangun ED - Michael, S Gazzaniga TI - Interpersonal Neuroscience T2 - The Cognitive Neurosciences PB - MIT Press CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PY - 2019 SP - 252 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/30656119 ID - 30656119 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Forgács, Bálint AU - Eugenio, Parise AU - Csibra, Gergely AU - Gergely, György AU - Lisa, Jacquey AU - Judit, Gervain TI - Fourteen‐Month‐Old Infants Track the Language Comprehension of Communicative Partners. JF - DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE J2 - DEVELOPMENTAL SCI VL - 22 PY - 2019 IS - 2 SN - 1363-755X DO - 10.1111/desc.12751 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/3419170 ID - 3419170 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Király, Ildikó AU - Oláh, Katalin AU - Csibra, Gergely AU - Kovács, Ágnes Melinda TI - Retrospective attribution of false beliefs in 3-year-old children JF - PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA J2 - P NATL ACAD SCI USA VL - 115 PY - 2018 IS - 45 SP - 11477 EP - 11482 PG - 6 SN - 0027-8424 DO - 10.1073/pnas.1803505115 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/30309602 ID - 30309602 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Tauzin, Tibor AU - Gergely, Gy TI - Osztenzív kommunikáció és pragmatikai következtetések preverbális csecsemőknél JF - ÁLTALÁNOS NYELVÉSZETI TANULMÁNYOK J2 - ÁLTALÁNOS NYELVÉSZETI TANULMÁNYOK VL - 29 PY - 2017 SP - 267 EP - 285 PG - 19 SN - 0569-1338 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/3302475 ID - 3302475 AB - 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. LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER -