Cerebral coherence between communicators marks the emergence of meaning.

ABSTRACT: How can we understand each other during communicative interactions? An influential suggestion holds that communicators are primed by each other's behaviors, with associative mechanisms automatically coordinating the production of communicative signals and the comprehension of their meanings. An alternative suggestion posits that mutual understanding requires shared conceptualizations of a signal's use, i.e., "conceptual pacts" that are abstracted away from specific experiences. Both accounts predict coherent neural dynamics across communicators, aligned either to the occurrence of a signal or to the dynamics of conceptual pacts. Using coherence spectral-density analysis of cerebral activity simultaneously measured in pairs of communicators, this study shows that establishing mutual underst

SUBMITTER: Stolk A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4280639 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature