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    "pk": 25963,
    "title": "Invertible signals: A challenge for theories of communication",
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    "abstract": "We used a novel experimental paradigm to investigate cognitive principles underpinning human communication.\nThrough a computer game simulating different virtual scenes, pairs of participants sent and interpreted non-linguistic, minimal\nsignals to achieve common goals. Participants’ signalling and interpretative actions demonstrated both flexibility and sensitivity\nto variations in the context of the shared visual scene: the same signal in one context could ‘flip’ its meaning in a new context.\nSuch ‘invertible’ signals in the lab have their counterparts in patterns of real-world natural language use—from the phenomenon\nof enantiosemy (words/phrases that contain their ‘opposite’ meaning) to the pragmatics of satire and irony. But the emergence of\nsuch signals in our experiment challenges both correlational associative and recursive-mentalizing (‘mind-reading’) accounts\nof human communication and language. Instead, we point to a pragmatics-central perspective in which what is vital is our\ncapacity for joint inference and coordination.",
    "language": "eng",
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            "first_name": "Jennifer",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Misyak",
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            "institution": "University of Warwick",
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        {
            "first_name": "Takao",
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            "last_name": "Noguchi",
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            "institution": "University College London",
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            "first_name": "Nick",
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            "last_name": "Chater",
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            "institution": "University of Warwick",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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