Neural correlates of intentional communication
Publication year
2010Number of pages
7 p.
Source
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 4, (2010), article 188ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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Organization
PI Group Neurobiology of Language
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Taalwetenschap
Journal title
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Volume
vol. 4
Languages used
English (eng)
Subject
110 000 Neurocognition of Language; Action, intention, and motor control; DI-BCB_DCC_Theme 2: Perception, Action and Control; Language in Time and SpaceAbstract
We know a great deal about the neurophysiological mechanisms supporting instrumental actions, i.e., actions designed to alter the physical state of the environment. In contrast, little is known about our ability to select communicative actions, i.e., actions directly designed to modify the mental state of another agent. We have recently provided novel empirical evidence for a mechanism in which a communicator selects his actions on the basis of a prediction of the communicative intentions that an addressee is most likely to attribute to those actions. The main novelty of those findings was that this prediction of intention recognition is cerebrally implemented within the intention recognition system of the communicator, is modulated by the ambiguity in meaning of the communicative acts, and not by their sensorimotor complexity. The characteristics of this predictive mechanism support the notion that human communicative abilities are distinct from both sensorimotor and linguistic processes.
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