Despite the ambiguity inherent in human communication, people are remarkably efficient in establishing mutual understanding. Studying how people communicate in novel settings provides a window into the mechanisms supporting the human competence to rapidly generate and understand novel shared symbols, a fundamental property of human communication. Previous work indicates that the right posterior...

Ern} o Téglás,1,2 Anna Gergely,3 Krisztina Kupán,2 Ádám Miklósi,3 and József Topál2,* 1Cognitive Development Center, Central European University, Hattyú 14, 1051 Budapest, Hungary 2Comparative Behavioural Research Group, Research Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Victor Hugo Street, 18-22, 1132 Budapest, Hungary 3Department of Ethology, Loránd Eötvös University, Pázmány P...

In the search for an understanding of human communication, researchers often try to isolate listener and speaker roles and study them separately. Others claim that it is the intertwinedness of these roles that makes human communication special. This close relationship between listener and speaker has been characterized by concepts such as common ground, backchanneling, and alignment, but they a...

This article offers a conceptual framework for integrated analysis of subprocesses in action and language, based on goal-directed action. Anatomical substrates are discussed in the companion paper (Arbib and Bota, 2003) which approaches “Integrative Models of Broca’s Area and the Ventral Premotor Cortex” within the context of explaining why the evolution of the human brain yielded mechanisms wh...

In recent years, scholars have become increasingly interested in studying routine or regularized discourse and its connections to the many institutions within which people act. This interest has emerged for a number of reasons, including the rapid evolution of digitally mediated communication and the upheaval of organizational structures in such realms of activity as business, government, and e...

A communicative robot “BUGNOID” that integrates various sensory data and behavior modules is introduced with some experimental results. For the achievement of flexible communication with humans, the robot has multimodal interface holding diverse channels of communication. Moreover, the robot can recognize the environment taking a human’s behavior into account in order to co-exist with them.

the curriculum development for arabic language skills needs to needs analysis (na) and situation analysis (sa). na examines the linguistic needs and sa examines non-linguistic factors such as societal factors, project factor, institutional factors, teacher factors, learner factors. this work examines the teachers and learners' perceptions as part of the teacher factors and learner factors,...

nowadays, new informational and communicative media, and the rate of their use by individuals have caused deep metamorphoses in the material and non-material dimensions of human lives, and individuals’ mental regulation. the use of these media, especially the internet and virtual social networks, among iranian teenagers has unnoticeably increased, and providing numerous facilities and options m...

UNLABELLED In this study we characterized profiles of communicative functions and forms of children with autism and intellectual disability (n=26), as compared to typically developing children (n=26) with a comparable nonverbal mental age (2-5 years). Videotapes of the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales - Developmental Profile were analyzed using a standardized observation scheme in whi...

People can communicate by using hand actions, e.g., signs. Understanding communicative actions requires that the observer knows that the actor has an intention to communicate and the meanings of the actions. Here, we investigated how this prior knowledge affects processing of observed actions. We used functional MRI to determine changes in action processing when non-signers were told that the o...