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    "pk": 26268,
    "title": "Surprising blindness to conversational incoherencein both instant messaging and face-to-face speech",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Language is widely assumed to be a well designed tool for re-liably communicating propositional information between peo-ple. This suggests that its users should be sensitive to failuresof communication, such as utterances that are blatantly inco-herent with respect to an ongoing conversation. We presentexperimental work suggesting that, in fact, people are surpris-ingly tolerant of conversational incoherence. In two previousstudies, participants engaged in instant-messaging conversa-tions that were either repeatedly crossed with other conversa-tions or had lines inserted into them that deliberately contra-dicted available information. In both cases, a substantial pro-portion of participants failed to notice. In a new study, confed-erates inserted unexpected, nonsensical lines into face-to-faceconversations. The majority of participants failed to notice.We argue these findings suggest that we should be wary ofmodeling spontaneous communication in terms of faithful in-formation transmission, or language as a well designed tool forthat purpose.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": null,
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "communication; miscommunication; languageevolution; change blindness"
        }
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    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0p04f0h3",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Gareth",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Roberts",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Benjamin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Langstein",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yeshiva University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Bruno",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Galantucci",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yeshiva University",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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