dc.contributor.author
Tomasello, Rosario
dc.contributor.author
Kim, Cora
dc.contributor.author
Dreyer, Felix R.
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Grisoni, Luigi
dc.contributor.author
Pulvermüller, Friedemann
dc.date.accessioned
2019-11-14T12:16:10Z
dc.date.available
2019-11-14T12:16:10Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/25933
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-25692
dc.description.abstract
During everyday social interaction, gestures are a fundamental part of human communication. The communicative pragmatic role of hand gestures and their interaction with spoken language has been documented at the earliest stage of language development, in which two types of indexical gestures are most prominent: the pointing gesture for directing attention to objects and the give-me gesture for making requests. Here we study, in adult human participants, the neurophysiological signatures of gestural-linguistic acts of communicating the pragmatic intentions of naming and requesting by simultaneously presenting written words and gestures. Already at ~150 ms, brain responses diverged between naming and request actions expressed by word-gesture combination, whereas the same gestures presented in isolation elicited their earliest neurophysiological dissociations significantly later (at ~210 ms). There was an early enhancement of request-evoked brain activity as compared with naming, which was due to sources in the frontocentral cortex, consistent with access to action knowledge in request understanding. In addition, an enhanced N400-like response indicated late semantic integration of gesture-language interaction. The present study demonstrates that word-gesture combinations used to express communicative pragmatic intentions speed up the brain correlates of comprehension processes – compared with gesture-only understanding – thereby calling into question current serial linguistic models viewing pragmatic function decoding at the end of a language comprehension cascade. Instead, information about the social-interactive role of communicative acts is processed instantaneously.
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dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
understanding communicative actions
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dc.subject.ddc
100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::152 Sinneswahrnehmung, Bewegung, Emotionen, Triebe
dc.title
Neurophysiological evidence for rapid processing of verbal and gestural information in understanding communicative actions
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
16285
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1038/s41598-019-52158-w
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Scientific Reports
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
9
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52158-w
refubium.affiliation
Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
refubium.funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
refubium.note.author
Die Publikation wurde aus Open Access Publikationsgeldern der Freien Universität Berlin und der DFG gefördert.
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access