ArticleNeurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.)2022
Individual Differences in Indirect Speech Act Processing Found Outside the Language Network.
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- Non-literal language processing is jointly supported by the language and theory of mind networks: Evidence from a novel meta-analytic fMRI approach.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2023Pooled it
- Neuropragmatics: from classical pragmatics to neurocognitive models of pragmatics in dialogue.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Pragmatics partially segregated from Theory of Mind: evidence from resting-state functional connectivity.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Theory of Mind and the brain substrates of direct and indirect communicative action understanding.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Conversational production and comprehension: fMRI-evidence reminiscent of but deviant from the classical Broca-Wernicke model.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Does the right temporo-parietal junction play a role in processing indirect speech acts? A transcranial magnetic stimulation study.Neuropsychologia · 2023Article
- Neural underpinnings of processing combinatorial unstated meaning and the influence of individual cognitive style.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Linguistic signs in action: The neuropragmatics of speech acts.Brain and language · 2023Review
- When did you stop speaking to yourself? Age-related differences in adolescents' world knowledge-based audience design.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Face-to-face communication requires skills that go beyond core language abilities. In dialogue, we routinely make inferences beyond the literal meaning of utterances and distinguish between different speech acts based on, e.g., contextual cues. It is, however, not known whether such communicative skills potentially overlap with core language skills or other capacities, such as theory of mind (ToM). In this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study we investigate these questions by capitalizing on individual variation in pragmatic skills in the general population. Based on behavioral data from 199 participants, we selected participants with higher vs. lower pragmatic skills for the fMRI study (
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