What makes human communication exceptional is the ability to grasp speaker's intentions
beyond what is said verbally. How the brain processes communicative functions is one of …

Experimental pragmatics asks how people construct contextualized meaning in
communication. So what does it mean for this field to add neuroas a prefix to its name? After …

Although language is a tool for communication, most research in the neuroscience of
language has focused on studying words and sentences, while little is known about the …

During everyday social interaction, gestures are a fundamental part of human
communication. The communicative pragmatic role of hand gestures and their interaction …

Human communicative competence is based on the ability to process a specific class of
mental states, namely, communicative intention. The present fMRI study aims to analyze …

Understanding the intended meaning of a remark beyond what is explicitly stated is an
integral part of successful social interactions. Here, we examined the neural circuitry …

The human faculty to speak has evolved, so has been argued, for communicating with
others and for engaging in social interactions. Hence the human cognitive system should be …

The traditional view in pragmatic theory is that a distinction exists between what speakers
say and what they mean, communicate, or implicate in context. For example, when uttering …

People normally know what they want to communicate before they start speaking. However,
brain indicators of communication are typically observed only after speech act onset, and it …

Human communication relies on the ability to process linguistic structure and to map words
and utterances onto our environment. Furthermore, as what we communicate is often not …