Children vary in their ability to use language in social contexts and this has important
consequences for wellbeing. We review studies that test whether individual differences in …

The ability to take a different perspective is central to a tremendous variety of higher level
cognitive skills. To communicate effectively, we must adopt the perspective of another …

There remains little consensus about whether there exist meaningful individual differences
in syntactic processing and, if so, what explains them. We argue that this partially reflects the …

Studies exploring the influence of executive functions (EF) on perspective-taking have
focused on inhibition and working memory in young adults or clinical populations. Less …

Face-to-face communication requires skills that go beyond core language abilities. In
dialogue, we routinely make inferences beyond the literal meaning of utterances and …

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Efficient conversation is guided by the mutual knowledge, or common ground, that
interlocutors form as a conversation progresses. Characterized from the perspective of …

According to Maxim of Quantity, rational talkers formulate their utterances to be as
economical as possible while conveying all necessary information. Naturally produced …

As a method to ascertain person and item effects in psycholinguistics, a generalized linear
mixed effect model (GLMM) with crossed random effects has met limitations in handing …

Research in sentence processing has increasingly examined the role of individual
differences in language comprehension. In work on native and nonnative sentence …