Introduction: Natural communication is not only literal, but to a large extent also inferential. For example, sometimes people say "It is hard to give a good presentation" to actually mean "Your talk was a mess!", and listeners need to infer the speaker’s hidden message. In spite of the pervasiveness of this phenomenon in everyday communication, and even though the hidden meaning is often what it’s all about, very little is known about how the brain supports the comprehension of indirect language. What are the neural systems involved in the inferential process , and how are they different from those involved in word- and sentence-level meaning processing? We investigated the neural correlates of this so-called pragmatic inferencing in an fM...
Humans possess a remarkable ability to understand what is and is not being said by conservational pa...
A central and influential idea among researchers of language is that our language faculty is organiz...
During verbal communication, humans regularly decode not only what is said but also why. Pragmatic t...
Introduction: Natural communication is not only literal, but to a large extent also inferential. For...
Contains fulltext : 132365.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Even though lan...
In using language, people not only exchange information, but also navigate their social world – for ...
Speakers and listeners do more than exchanging propositional content. They try to get things done wi...
My contribution will focus on the neural infrastructure for deriving speaker meaning. Recent account...
One of the most useful tools in the service of communication is language. However, the neuro-cognit...
Contains fulltext : 70720.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)When do listener...
In human communication, direct speech (e.g., Mary said: ‘I’m hungry’) coincides with vivid paralingu...
Contains fulltext : 73431.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)When do listener...
In ordinary conversations, literal meanings of an utterance are often quite different from implicate...
Humans have a remarkable ability to understand what is and is not being said by conversational partn...
Humans possess a remarkable ability to understand what is and is not being said by conservational pa...
A central and influential idea among researchers of language is that our language faculty is organiz...
During verbal communication, humans regularly decode not only what is said but also why. Pragmatic t...
Introduction: Natural communication is not only literal, but to a large extent also inferential. For...
Contains fulltext : 132365.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Even though lan...
In using language, people not only exchange information, but also navigate their social world – for ...
Speakers and listeners do more than exchanging propositional content. They try to get things done wi...
My contribution will focus on the neural infrastructure for deriving speaker meaning. Recent account...
One of the most useful tools in the service of communication is language. However, the neuro-cognit...
Contains fulltext : 70720.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)When do listener...
In human communication, direct speech (e.g., Mary said: ‘I’m hungry’) coincides with vivid paralingu...
Contains fulltext : 73431.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)When do listener...
In ordinary conversations, literal meanings of an utterance are often quite different from implicate...
Humans have a remarkable ability to understand what is and is not being said by conversational partn...
Humans possess a remarkable ability to understand what is and is not being said by conservational pa...
A central and influential idea among researchers of language is that our language faculty is organiz...
During verbal communication, humans regularly decode not only what is said but also why. Pragmatic t...