ArticleCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior2017
Learning and using knowledge about what other people do and don't know despite amnesia.
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- Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2025Review
- MEM&SO protocol: understanding the determinants of social learning in neurodegenerative diseases.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Keeping track of who knows what in multiparty conversation despite severe memory impairment.Neuropsychologia · 2024Article
- Evidence of Audience Design in Amnesia: Adaptation in Gesture but Not Speech.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Detecting Alzheimer's Disease Using Natural Language Processing of Referential Communication Task Transcripts.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2022Article
- Gesture height reflects common ground status even in patients with amnesia.Brain and language · 2019Article
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Successful communication requires keeping track of what other people do and do not know, and how this differs from our own knowledge. Here we ask how knowledge of what others know is stored in memory. We take a neuropsychological approach, comparing healthy adults to patients with severe declarative memory impairment (amnesia). We evaluate whether this memory impairment disrupts the ability to successfully acquire and use knowledge about what other people know when communicating with them. We tested participants in a referential communication task in which the participants described a series of abstract "tangram" images for a partner. Participants then repeated the task with the same partner or a new partner. Findings show that much like healthy individuals, individuals with amnesia successfully tailored their communicative language to the knowledge shared with their conversational partner-their common ground. They produced brief descriptions of the tangram images for the familiar partner and provided more descriptive, longer expressions for the new partner. These findings demonstrate remarkable sparing in amnesia of the acquisition and use of partner-specific knowledge that underlies common ground, and have important implications for understanding the memory systems that support conversational language.
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