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      Taking common ground into account: Specifying the role of the mentalizing network in communicative language production

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      Creators
      Vanlangendonck, F.
      Willems, R.M.
      Hagoort, P.
      Date of Archiving
      2018
      Archive
      Radboud Data Repository
      Data archive handle
      https://hdl.handle.net/11633/di.dccn.DSC_3011038.02_274
      Publication type
      Dataset
      Access level
      Open access
      Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/2066/203813   https://hdl.handle.net/2066/203813
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      Organization
      PI Group Neurobiology of Language
      Communicatie en Beïnvloeding
      SW OZ DCC PL
      Audience(s)
      Life sciences
      Languages used
      English
      Key words
      mentalizing; language production; theory of mind; communication; fMRI
      Abstract
      Several studies have shown that communicative language production as compared to non-communicative language production recruits parts of the mentalizing or theory of mind network, yet the exact role of this network in communication remains underspecified. In this study, we therefore aimed to test under what conditions the mentalizing network contributes to communicative language production. We were especially interested in distinguishing between situations in which speakers have to consider which information they do or do not share with their addressee (common vs. privileged ground information). We therefore manipulated whether speakers had to distinguish between common and privileged ground in order to communicate efficiently with the listener, in addition to comparing language production in a communicative and a non-communicative context. Participants performed a referential communicative game in the MRI-scanner as well as a similar, non-communicative task. We found that the medial prefrontal cortex, a core region of the mentalizing network, is especially sensitive to communicative contexts in which speakers have to take their addressee’s needs into account in order to communicate efficiently. In addition, we found neural differences between the communicative and the non-communicative settings before speakers started to plan their utterances, suggesting that they continuously update common ground in a communicative context.
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