The taking of turns is a fundamental aspect of dialogue. Since it is difficult to speak and listen
at the same time, the participants need to coordinate who is currently speaking and when …

The natural ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction comprising the exchange
of a plethora of multimodal signals. Trying to understand the psycholinguistic processing of …

Purpose Service robots can offer benefits to consumers (eg convenience, flexibility,
availability, efficiency) and service providers (eg cost savings), but a lack of trust hinders …

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are becoming ubiquitously available, being embedded both
into everyday mobility via smartphones, and into the life of the home via'assistant'devices …

We introduce dGSLM, the first “textless” model able to generate audio samples of naturalistic
spoken dialogues. It uses recent work on unsupervised spoken unit discovery coupled with …

We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …

Clicking is one of the most robust metaphors for social connection. But how do we know
when two people" click"? We asked pairs of friends and strangers to talk with each other and …

Researchers agree that comprehenders regularly predict upcoming language, but they do
not always agree on what prediction is (and how to differentiate it from integration) or what …

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 …

Prediction is often regarded as an integral aspect of incremental language comprehension,
but little is known about the cognitive architectures and mechanisms that support it. We …