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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Interaction structure constrains the emergence of conventions in group communication.

Veronica Boyce, Robert D Hawkins, Noah D Goodman, Michael C Frank

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A simple threshold captures the social learning of conventions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Layers of Social Meaning: Innate, Acquired, and Deliberative Levels of Referential Signal Processing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Veronica BoycePsychology Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0002-8890-2775
Robert D HawkinsPsychology Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53715.
Noah D GoodmanPsychology Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Michael C FrankPsychology Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0002-7551-4378

Funding

Stanford Center for Human-Centered AI Hoffman Yee Grant (no number)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Real-world communication frequently requires language producers to address more than one comprehender at once, yet most psycholinguistic research focuses on one-on-one communication. As the audience size grows, interlocutors face new challenges that do not arise in dyads. They must consider multiple perspectives and weigh multiple sources of feedback to build shared understanding. Here, we ask which properties of the group's interaction structure facilitate successful communication. We used a repeated reference game paradigm in which directors instructed between one and five matchers to choose specific targets out of a set of abstract figures. Across 313 games (

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CommunicationAdultFemaleGroup ProcessesHumansInterpersonal RelationsLanguageMalePsycholinguisticsYoung Adultcommunicationconvention formationexperimentinteractive web-based platformreference games

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PMID38968102
PMCPMC11252989

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