Neural correlates of intentional communication

Noordzij, Matthijs L. and Newman-Norlund, Sarah E. and Ruiter de, Jan Peter and Hagoort, Peter and Levinson, Stephen C. and Toni, Ivan (2010) Neural correlates of intentional communication. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 4 (188). ISSN 1662-4548

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Abstract:	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
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2010 The Author(s)
Faculty:	Behavioural Sciences (BS)
Research Group:	Cognitive Psychology and Ergonomics (CPE)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/77689
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2010.00188
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