The evolution of rhythm processing

SA Kotz, A Ravignani, WT Fitch - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Behavioral and brain rhythms in the millisecond-to-second range are central in human
music, speech, and movement. A comparative approach can further our understanding of …

Interactive repair and the foundations of language

M Dingemanse, NJ Enfield - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
The robustness and flexibility of human language is underpinned by a machinery of
interactive repair. Repair is deeply intertwined with two core properties of human language …

The CANDOR corpus: Insights from a large multimodal dataset of naturalistic conversation

A Reece, G Cooney, P Bull, C Chung, B Dawson… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
People spend a substantial portion of their lives engaged in conversation, and yet, our
scientific understanding of conversation is still in its infancy. Here, we introduce a large …

Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations

M Fröhlich, C Sievers, SW Townsend… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The presence of divergent and independent research traditions in the gestural and vocal
domains of primate communication has resulted in major discrepancies in the definition and …

Turn-taking in human face-to-face interaction is multimodal: gaze direction and manual gestures aid the coordination of turn transitions

KH Kendrick, J Holler… - … transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human communicative interaction is characterized by rapid and precise turn-taking. This is
achieved by an intricate system that has been elucidated in the field of conversation …

The multi-dimensional nature of vocal learning

SC Vernes, BP Kriengwatana… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How learning affects vocalizations is a key question in the study of animal communication
and human language. Parallel efforts in birds and humans have taught us much about how …

Motor cortical control of vocal interaction in neotropical singing mice

DE Okobi Jr, A Banerjee, AMM Matheson, SM Phelps… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Like many adaptive behaviors, acoustic communication often requires rapid modification of
motor output in response to sensory cues. However, little is known about the sensorimotor …

Visual bodily signals as core devices for coordinating minds in interaction

J Holler - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The view put forward here is that visual bodily signals play a core role in human
communication and the coordination of minds. Critically, this role goes far beyond referential …

Old and new approaches to animal cognition: there is not “one cognition”

J Bräuer, D Hanus, S Pika, R Gray, N Uomini - Journal of Intelligence, 2020 - mdpi.com
Using the comparative approach, researchers draw inferences about the evolution of
cognition. Psychologists have postulated several hypotheses to explain why certain species …

A systematic review and Bayesian meta‐analysis of the development of turn taking in adult–child vocal interactions

V Nguyen, O Versyp, C Cox, R Fusaroli - Child Development, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fluent conversation requires temporal organization between conversational exchanges. By
performing a systematic review and Bayesian multi‐level meta‐analysis, we map the …