Individual Differences in Indirect Speech Act Processing Found Outside the Language Network.

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 (N = 57). In the scanner, participants listened to dialogues including a direct or

SUBMITTER: Bendtz K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10158615 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature