Language and social cognition are fundamental to human communication. But how do these capacities interact? In a review paper published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics (MPI) in Nijmegen and Yale University show how language and social cognition are integrated in real time. The authors propose a new “mind-tracking” model of communication, in which social micro-processes play a fundamental role in language production and comprehension.
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