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    "title": "Adaptation to Speakers is modulated by working memory updating and theory of mind -- a study investigating humor comprehension",
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    "abstract": "When humans communicate, they typically adapt to their conversational partner in how they speak, and in how they interpret what the conversational partner says. In the area of pragmatic language comprehension, there is so far little work that has studied the individual differences between listeners with respect to adapting to a given speaker. We investigated which individual cognitive factors correlate with listener's ability to associate speakers with humorous utterances.\nWe found that working memory updating (as measured by the Keeping Track Task) was a significant predictor of adaptation to the speaker.\nThese findings are in line with a recent related study (Schuster et al., 2023) which investigated speaker-specific adaptation to the use of uncertainty expressions. We furthermore observe a correlation between speaker adaptation and the Faux Pas Test. This task is used for measuring theory of mind abilities and is believed to specifically tap into intention recognition, an ability which is also very relevant to joke comprehension.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
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            "word": "Linguistics; Memory; Pragmatics; Theory of Mind; Computer-based experiment"
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    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
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            "first_name": "Jia",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Loy",
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            "institution": "Saarland University",
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        {
            "first_name": "Vera",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Demberg",
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            "institution": "Saarland University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2024-01-02T00:00:00+06:00",
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