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Open Mind Volume 4: November

Subject Areas: Cognitive Neuroscience
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press - MIT Press
SJR: 4

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Polite Speech Emerges From Competing Social Goals

Yoon, Erica J.; Tessler, Michael Henry; Goodman, Noah D.; Frank, Michael C.

2020 Open Mind

doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00035 pmid:33225196

Language is a remarkably efficient tool for transmitting information. Yet human speakers make statements that are inefficient, imprecise, or even contrary to their own beliefs, all in the service of being polite. What rational machinery underlies polite language use? Here, we show that polite...
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Coordination and Consonance Between Interacting, Improvising Musicians

Setzler, Matthew; Goldstone, Robert

2020 Open Mind

doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00036 pmid:34485792

Joint action (JA) is ubiquitous in our cognitive lives. From basketball teams to teams of surgeons, humans often coordinate with one another to achieve some common goal. Idealized laboratory studies of group behavior have begun to elucidate basic JA mechanisms, but little is understood about how...
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Grouping Mechanisms in Numerosity Perception

Ciccione, Lorenzo; Dehaene, Stanislas

2020 Open Mind

doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00037 pmid:34485793

Enumeration of a dot array is faster and easier if the items form recognizable subgroups. This phenomenon, which has been termed “groupitizing,” appears in children after one year of formal education and correlates with arithmetic abilities. We formulated and tested the hypothesis that...

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